Friendly Fire Notebook

Subject: Friendly Fire Notebook
From: "Gord Beaman" )
Date: 4/24/04 9:39 AM Paci

I'd personally believe personal accounts given first hand, than anything
else.


Well, often first hand accounts are wrong, or at best conflicting. For
example
Ed doesn't believe the BUFF-MiG-21 shootdowns, but you and both B-52
aircrews
involved do. I find first hand accounts good for supporting data, personally
I
prefer records, although as you pointed out these are often incorrect too.


BUFDRVR


The NTSB sure doesn't put much credence in eyewitness accounts at
all. They use them only to add a slight

And whathapopens in the cases where the only accounts you have are first hand
eye witness accounts??? Then what?


Arthur Kramer
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(ArtKramr) wrote:

GB wrote:

The NTSB sure doesn't put much credence in eyewitness accounts at
all. They use them only to add a slight

And whathapopens in the cases where the only accounts you have are first hand
eye witness accounts??? Then what?

Arthur Kramer

Dunno Arthur, guess in that case yer kinda skrood aincha?...

Note the "first hand account" of a lady watching (from the
ground) the prang of the, what DC-8? 707? aircraft from South
America which ran out of fuel. "I watched the pilot standing at a
cockpit window waving a little red flag". She likely really
thought that she saw that, but it 'probably' didn't happen.

Of course what Ed says about experience has some value but even
the most experienced flyer can get rattled when presented with a
very traumatic happening causing him to 'fill in' areas that
might later be proven untrue. He really might believe that what
his mind 'filled in' happened when it couldn't have. The NTSB has
proven this many times.

Nothing to do with stupidity (or nobility either) just human
nature.
--

-Gord.