So true. Most accidents are human error, though we do occasionally see a tie rod snap on a car or a wheel comes off. But most of the time it is as mundane as someone driving and they drop some piece of food in their lap, or they sneeze, or drink, or text, or adjust their radio, lose track of where they are and go off the highway shoulder into the median, etc.
It is almost never the exciting things that get us, it’s almost always the mundane.
I will say again...I don’t really think it is sex or drugs. I am really rooting against that as a cause, and don’t think it is likely in any case...just to be clear!
“”But most of the time it is as mundane as someone driving and they drop some piece of food in their lap, or they sneeze, or drink, or text, or adjust their radio, lose track of where they are and go off the highway shoulder into the median, etc. It is almost never the exciting things that get us, it’s almost always the mundane.””
While the mundane may cause the individual to have an accident, how can the mundane cause a fairly large number of sailors to all fall asleep at the wheel?
Between the Bridge, CIC, and Lookouts there may have been upwards of 30 crew whose duty it was to be on the lookout for stuff. And all of them with their sophisticated equipment failed to see anything unusual?
I have seen a lot of innuendo that the Crystal was on autopilot and thus implying no human was in charge.
Well, maybe the Navy is simply deflecting its own bad behavior by accusing the Crystal of doing what the Fitzgerald was doing.
Just maybe the Fitzgerald was on autopilot and none of the 30 or so crew were paying any attention to all of their sophisticated equipment because they were relying upon the computer to give them the right answer.