Re: DC police boat crashes into a couple moored boats and sinks one of them
This LEO boat driver must have gone to the same emergency response training school as the airport firetruck driver that ran over (and killed) the schoolgirl ejected from the Asiana flight 214 that crashed short of the runway at San Francisco just 2 months ago.
Their motto: "I'm going to get to the emergency, even if it kills someone!"
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I don't think that's a fair comparison, nor do I think it's fair to blame the airport firetruck driver. No, I wasn't at either incident.
But first, from the boat video, there is no excuse whatsoever for the boat driver's action. None. He was at a no-panic situation, gunned a powerful boat before turning toward his intended path, had no control or skill in knowing how his boat handles.
At the airport, as i understand it, the girl was covered in the flame foam and couldn't be seen. Night-time, too, IIRC. Regardless, every second counts ni getting all those people off the burning plane before it is engulfed or explodes. There is panic and confusion and uncertainty and everyone does the best he can at the moment. I really feel sorry for that driver and what he has to live with anyway, plus all the snide comments about the accident. If there was something truly stupid he did, enlighten us all.
