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This just in: an airplane crashed; something went wrong. In the latest example of this all too familiar scenario, Continental Connection Flight 3407 crashed into a Buffalo, NY house killing fifty people. Almost as soon as the iced over plane went down, the news began relentlessly reporting every tragically inane detail. The de-icing system was activated. No birds were involved. The plan nose-dived- wait- flat-bellied into a house. And, the latest announcement, the plane was flying on autopilot which was, in such weather conditions, against some airline policies. Depending on the situation. What started out as an un-biased accounting of a tragedy soon turned into a blame game. Someone needed to be responsible. Someone needed to be at fault. This person, speculatively, is the pilot. I think he learned his lesson.
