Ethics in the aviation profession

             Ethics in the aviation profession is more than just doing what is right, but it is also knowing what is right.  Many times with so many regulations in the aviation world, it becomes easier to plead ignorance when something goes wrong.  When in fact it was your own fault.  Take for example a plane crash in 1995 due to ignorance.  They knew that they needed the most experienced crew in order to get the engine on this plane fixed at another airport but they still made the wrong ethical decision, which cost lives.  This is due to the fact that they did not know the right answer, but thought their choice was the right answer.  Anytime ethics becomes involved in anything you need a written standard to abide by to know whether or not you are doing the right thing.  For example with Christians it is the Bible, Muslims the Quran, and so on and so forth.  We in the aviation profession must continue to educate ourselves in the current publications and regulations so that we can continue to abide in good Ethics and make the right choices and decisions.  Ethics in the aviation profession is one of the most important aspects because of the fact that so many lives/people rely on us to make sure that they do not get injured or worse killed.