Nobody excused James Kim for his mistakes. He definitely messed up and well I think he paid a pretty big price for his mistake.
I think SAR made some pretty big blunders here and I think people are just as easily excusing their mistakes.
Difference is...SAR gets paid to do what they do and when they make a mistake it just gets pushed aside.
James Kim made some mistakes and he is dead.
Don't you think this needs to be discussed to help this from happening again?
The Oregon wilderness is NOT Disneyland. You take that road in a snowstorm and you are begging for trouble. Once he was lost it was worse than a needle in a haystack. He gets all the blame for that idiocy.
Attempting to hike out when you haven't the slightest idea where you are or where your going in a blizzard was his last mistake.
Pointing the finger at anybody but him will not help anyone. It was a miricle his family survived thanks to a lucky pilot.
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