> The occurrence was not reported to the authorities and only came to light later.
This is shocking, heads in the sand.
This is shocking, heads in the sand.
Normally if you're looking at a black box, you know something suboptimal already occured.
For the day to day there is a recording system called FOQA which can (and does) get analyzed, and stores more or less the same thing as the blackbox
Of course trying to be sneaky doesn't help when ATC noticed what happened
the way I read it, there were only 800 ft (less than 250 m, or around 15 seconds at a sink rate of 3000 fpm) standing between a "minor incident" and a major disaster.
Quite literally?
We're talking about a carrier based in a desert nation and a flight that departed said desert nation. It's a joke about the local environmental conditions resulting in the phrase "head in the sand" being potentially ambiguous between the literal meaning and the figurative meaning.
I live in the Middle-east (the region of the world where Doha is located), trust me, it’s full of sand.
You don’t need to feel insulted for me.
The original use of the idiom was mine and I didn’t make that connection at all.