Pilot error, to wit failure to follow procedures, was the cause of the accident.

飞行员的失误，即没有遵守操作程序，是事故的原因。

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The loss of a friend, an illness, an accident, a natural disaster, a war, or any failure can make us quickly think that we are no good and are being punished.

失掉了一个朋友，一场疾病，一次意外，自然灾害，战争，或者任何的失败，都会诱使我们想当然的认为是自己不好，受到了惩罚。

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Among these reasons for the accident, one should be emphasized that mechanism failure contributed to it dramatically.

在引起事故的众多原因中，其中一点应强调的是，机械故障极大地促成了这一事故。

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Too often, accident investigations blame a failure only on the last step in a complex process, when a more comprehensive understanding of that process could reveal that earlier steps might be equally or even more culpable.

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The accident and Edward Kennedy's failure to notify authorities of it for several hours helped stymie the senator's presidential ambitions.

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That's like saying that just because there are police officers around and that an accident happens, there is a failure on the part of the police officers.

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