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		scoot 30 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-fli... Both result in a crash – the first due to pilot error, the second due to mechanical failure.

SaberTail 30 days ago [–]

CFIT is not necessarily pilot error. For example, if ATC vectored a plane without ground proximity warnings into the side of a mountain, that would also be CFIT.

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