We will always have hope

Everyone by now must know about the terrible flight crash we had this week in Sao Paulo Brazil.

Now begins the blame game.

I was astonished by the fact the papers here were the first to blame the crash on the fact that the "popular pressure" caused the accident. How? Why, that is so obvious (sarcastic). The runaway, which was being refurbished after a judge banned big Boings landing on it ***ok, STOP!!!** this is the first thing wrong here – why on earth should a  judge do that? Shouldn't it be decided by engineers, professionals, air companies, the airport itself?? **carrying on** was reopened because the public wouldn't take more grief from the airports – not accepting any more delays.

Yes, if you don't know, Brazil has a huge air traffic crisis since our last air crash, 9 months ago when two planes crashed and the great scandal about the conditions air traffic professionals work were unveiled.

To protect the public they were working on a very slow pace, making sure they took the rewarded breaks, and that brought chaos to a system that is already busy and overscheduled.

The way the press had put it here (and I am sure all biased on the press releases ,we Brazilians ourselves release) its like we are all a bunch of selvages, climbing airport desks and making riots to get to our flight. But I know the picture is not like that. Of course some or other will do take desperate measures when they really have to travel, after all they bought their ticket is only fair they'd have the right to flight right?

WRONG! All those who were on the news punching air traffic workers should be ashamed of themselves. They contributed to what they now call "public pressure" image.

In here when an airport or runaway is closed that is that. Not even the Queen, or the Pope or Paris Hilton will change it.

If you have to wait 3 days sleeping on the airport you will do so. Not quietly, I agree, but everybody understands it at the end. They know their lives are being protected by those actions.

In Brazil we have a serious problem.

We don't trust anyone. We don't trust politicians, we don't trust professionals, we don't trust the law, and we don't trust the media. We only trust God (and some people not even that).

This can make things very messy.  We don't have guidance, so people get lost between the right and wrong too easily.

There were two other skidding almost-accidents incidents on the same airport a day before. You almost didn't see that in the press.

The press didn't say the new surface wasn't ready and the "grooves" what should be added to it to give more adherence to the plane were missing.

Maybe if people knew it, they would not fly from the airport, they would refuse.

But politics, religion and business are so together over there they say whatever, wherever and whenever they want. People don't have guidance. No one was interested in having another airport closure, loose loads of money for passengers cancelling flights and avoiding future trips. Too much costly to divert the planes because of two little near-hit accidents. The government was already under fire because all the problems they are having since demilitarizing the Air Traffic and made it another job hanger*.

The poor souls taken on these accidents weren't to blame, and now these people who made their decisions based on money will have real grief to deal with.

Now it's easy to say people must react and ask for solutions, but you know what I predict? They'll say it was a mechanic failure, a human failure. Neither the plane is there anymore to be proof, either the poor pilot who is gone and cannot defend himself.

People will be misguided again, and forget in a few weeks this happened.

Unfortunately, maybe this will happen again. The only chances are those responsible for the go-no-go decisions start cleaning up their act and do something about it, fast.

 

Do we have a hope?

Yeap, we Brazilians always say, "hope is the last to die"

 

 

*job hanger – government institution which is used to employ all politicians and directors family, friends and favour owners. They usually don't know what they are there to do nor how to do it. They are more common than you'd imagine.