I have certainly read over a hundred such analyses in my lifetime, perhaps three times that.

Many of these accidents were attributable to pilot error, at least in part.

But this is the very first time that I wondered that perhaps I, shortsighted, who has flown a plane for perhaps 20 minutes, who knows nothing of the cockpit on a jet, might have done a better job than the pilots, so great was their level of aggressive incompetence in one case and passive in the other.

"A flight crew who steered a perfectly good airplane into the sea." Literally shaking my head,