Thru IndAeMed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: -------------------------------------------- Dear List at the risk of being guillotined, I have a few loud thoughts - answers to which may emerge slowly. (1) what was the weather forecast when decision for the sortie was made? (2) Did the pilots recheck the weather just before take off, if they had some kind of weather warning? (3) Did the DMetO find it prudent to inform the formation leader about adverse weather or just the routine METARs were supplied to ATC? (4)Did the COO and SFSIO actually monitor the prevailing flying conditions and the flight safety environment? (5) Did the Formation Leader undertake a proper briefing before the planned sortie including the actions in case of an emergency? (6) Did any communication undertake among the formation once in bad weather? (7) Was the communication sufficient or did it rather distract the pilots of the ill-fated aircraft from their recovery actions from the emergency? (8) Did any lapse or omission of judgment take place on part of deceased pilots? (9) What was the likely workload on the deceased pilots - of actual mission flying and once the emergency had set in? Did they avail of any other resources - man or machine, outside of the aircraft? (10) Were there any trait or characteristics amongst the crew, alive or deceased, which led to the sad outcome? I am thinking aloud because I have always felt that the communication, the lack of it or sometimes the distraction that it causes - affects judgment and decision making. And the end results invariably are not happy. Moreover happy outcomes are not as well publicised to understand the dynamics of positive communication leading to correct evaluation of situation and decision making. Tell me if I am wrong? I would also request the List instead of telling me not to question, to put their own doubts forward. Invariably, the members take a logical approach in an Inquiry, but mindgames occur later - by then the inquiry is final and one can not alter, even if there are serious Human Factors related unanswered questions... with warm wishes Sanjiv ======================================================================= To send messages to the full list please send to IndAeMed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To view the archive of messages on this list please visit: //www.freelists.org/archives/indaemed/ To add/change/remove your addresses/names please write to Anirudh Agrawal at : anirudh_a@xxxxxxxxxxx Alternate List : IndAeMed@xxxxxxxxxxxx Webpage of this List at : http://www.AvMedNet.Net ISAM Web Page at: http://www.ISAM-India.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------