So? The comparison still makes no sense. Those switches cannot be accidentally flipped, and they are in a place where the pilots' hands have no action to take at all during that period. That is very different from mixing up two similar weapons in a similar location.
The pilots have no business with their hands in the area of those switches in that phase of the flight (9:30+ in the video). They don't even have to touch the throttle, and even if they did, that's a long way from where you touch the throttle down to the base where those switches are. Which you can't just flip either.
How is that even remotely similar to that cop's situation?
Yes, unbelievable things can happen. There are crashes where the pilot got discombobulated and a crash resulted.
For another example, there are at least two crashes I recall (and I am sure there are many more) where the pilot pulled back to recover from a stall despite being trained endlessly to push forward to recover. (And they killed everyone on board.) Pilots get confused by what an alarm means, and do the wrong thing. Pilots assume the autopilot is on but they had accidentally turned it off. Sometimes people get crazy urges to do the wrong thing (there's a word for that: cacoethes).
These things are rare, but when there are millions of flights, rare things happen.
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It has nothing to do with being illegal. That's just not the name of the city. Why would someone call San Francisco St-Francis on any sign, since nobody would know what it refers to?
Well you have to understand the structure of those organizations. They might not know anything about IT and have someone they don't know offering to "fix it", they might think you are there to remove virus from their PCs. Lots of org wouldn't know the benefits of getting a proper IT management system before they see it. Sometimes you have to get started volunteering at that organization, see what they really need, and then propose to develop some IT projects that would help them fix real world problems that they have. Before they see what problem you could solve, you are just a volunteer that doesn't fit with their core activities and they wouldn't know what to do with you. Anyway, there are so many NGO out there that even if you get refused somewhere, find another one, there's no shortage.
Look at str2, it says poutinecoutu
Seems to be the username of someone in Quebec (Canada), coutu being a very common last name and poutine being the national dish.
This nickname has been used quite a lot on different hacking forums:
https://www.google.com/search?q=poutinecoutu&aq=f&oq...
As I had noted in another comment, this product that this person is using is advertised on hackforums. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5531500) So I've gone on hackforums, searched for poutinecoutu, and what do you know? This might be him.
FoxyJava is a Java Drive-By, similar to this GalaxyJDB the exploit used. I wonder if he has also used GalaxyJDB? I can't see any replies, but it's possible. Let's go to the galaxyjdb site and see if the person who programmed the login was dumb enough to check username and password seperately: http://galaxyjdb.com/index.php?a=Login
...sadly not, it would seem. So I can't prove they use GalaxyJDB, or that this is even the person we're after, but I think it's very likely.
No it’s not comparable to a cop that confuses things in the heat of the moment. Not anywhere close to be relatable.
If it was, planes would be crashing down the sky quite often (and it would have been fixed for decades already).