OTOH, God could have caused/allowed them to make some really bad judgment calls about the best flying conditions.
“OTOH, God could have caused/allowed them to make some really bad judgment calls about the best flying conditions.”
Possible. But I’ve known Iranians, and they don’t need God’s help to make bad judgement calls. When your culture tells you that whatever thing happens is due to Allah’s will, what’s the incentive to think anything through? A guy who trained Muslim’s in flying the aircraft his company sold would take a qualified pilot up, but it into a flat spin and ask them to recover. He said, they’d start screaming “Allahu Akbar” (I think that was it.) But they wouldn’t take the actions he had taught them. He’d backhand them, take the controls and pull out of the spin. Then they’d do it again. The thing was, because God was in control, they weren’t. Until he could get them to recover from a flat spin, he wouldn’t sign off on them flying the plane. (He was a massive, big guy. He said, only physical force could overcome their innate stupidity.)