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Monday, January 12, 2004

Rewrite the Owner's Manual


CBC News reports that Sea King pilots are going to be trained to "ditch at sea" these ancient helicopters. I've ranted on this before; here under the title "Look out, here come the Canadians". If any other employer was using equipment known to be this dangerous and where the malfunction of the equipment was a virtual certainty, such an employer would be fined to death (as they should be) for such blatant disregard for their employees. How does the government get away with this in the armed forces? It is criminal to knowingly but people's lives at risk in this way.