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Old 10-21-2010 | 07:38 AM
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Default RE: An Incident with Lessons for All of Us

ORIGINAL: Avaiojet

Be interesting to know if anything was learned from all this?
LCS,
Not a thing...
This post is NOT being aimed at you LCS but rather the "sad" fact behind your post. If the above statement is true, that "not a thing" was learned from this, we as human beings have failed. To have an incident happen that involves flying our "model airplanes" near a FS aircraft and cause a "possible" deadly ending, well we BETTER learn SOMETHING!

Just a few months ago a father took up a campaign to ban aluminum baseball bats becuase his son got hit by a batted ball and killed while pitching a game. The bats were "legal", the balls were "legal", the field was "regulation", all the rules of safety were followed, BUT the boy accidently got killed. NOTHING mattered in the public eye about what was "legal", just that a boy died. The EXACT SAME THING will happen with RC flying if someone dies, or gets seriously hurt, and THAT is what we should learn from this incident.

I have made some pretty strong statements against anyone who is arguing "who is at fault", and I offer NO apologies...We're ALL at fault if that's all that matters is who is at fault. The incident has happened, key word is "happened", IT"S HISTORY. NOTHING said or done here can change that. The only thing we can do as modelers is assure it will NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. And as I said before and will continue to say, If you don't think a modeler should ground his plane IMMEDIATELY in the presence of FS aircraft, and would rather risk another incident like this one, then shame on you! I'm sure if you didn't ground your plane, and it results in a human being being hurt or killed, you'd sleep like a baby knowing "you had your rights to fly" around FS aircraft...