It is time for a periodical reminder about communication around aviation incidents. I posted about this in the first weekly review this year and apparently after six months, a "second shot" is due. The aviation sphere is buzzing with commentaries and analysis of an incident in which a landing aircraft was damaged by a hail storm.
I did not include links on purpose to avoid contributing to this agitation. As always, many self-appointed experts are commenting and sharing opinions online, which at this stage can only be partially informed at best. Getting a full understanding of the situations here requires at least recordings of the radio communications and, in the second case, data available only on board the aircraft.
There is a history and context behind the decision making and those who know about it are certainly not the ones communicating at this stage.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that nothing happened or that everything was perfect or by the rules. My point is only that anybody publicly commenting on this is highly speculating and that only a full investigation will lead to a better understanding of what happened.
It is certainly tempting for a lot of people to share their partly informed opinion and discuss those cases and there certainly will be lessons learned. But there are also a number of individuals out there who use such cases to build traffic, profile, visibility and try to establish some kind of undue credibility.
Defending this position is not popular and is not getting any of this traffic, visibility and will not get me my 15 minutes of fame, but it is the only responsible position. So please wait until a report is published, and for now, enjoy browsing our news below.
