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US air force finds contractor who walked into propeller had become disorientated
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Her job was to be on active tarmac near running aircraft. She isn't some random person that shouldn't have been there.
It appears she wasn't paying attention and people tried to stop her from walking into the propeller.
Probably an accident due to familiarity. Some guy off the street is gonna pay attention around a running airplane, someone been working around them for years might just get distracted.
Over-familiarity and comfort is a major cause of accidents.
I do a lot of woodworking, and the most dangerous things are repetitive tasks. Make the same simple cut 200 times in a row on a table saw, and it gets more dangerous as you get in the groove, not less.
"We've investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing."
I guess because it's not cops and because the snowball effect has taken hold, this rhetoric suddenly doesn't apply.
They did find wrongdoing on their part: they didn't train or instruct her adequately. It's just that her becoming disorientated was also a contributing factor.
Cops would have just called her an immigrant terrorist or something, and planted drugs on her remains.
Huh. It appears the investigation shows she was trained incorrectly.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/05/us-air-force-contractor-death-stephanie-cosme