lsat2-2-19

19.   How do the airlines expect to prevent commercial plane crashes? Studies have shown that pilot error contributes to two-thirds of all such crashes. To address this problem, the airlines have upgraded their training programs by increasing the hours of classroom instruction and emphasizing communication skills in the cockpit. But it is unrealistic to expect such measures to compensate for pilots’ lack of actual flying time. Therefore, the airlines should rethink their training approach to reducing commercial crashes.

Which one of the following is an assumption upon which the argument depends?

(A) Training programs can eliminate pilot errors.

(B) Commercial pilots routinely undergo additional training throughout their careers.

(C) The number of airline crashes will decrease if pilot training programs focus on increasing actual flying time.

(D) Lack of actual flying time is an important contributor to pilot error in commercial plane crashes.（D）

(E) Communication skills are not importan to pilot training programs.

想問為什麼C是錯的  謝謝

check the conclusion,

the conclusion the current trainning approach is not sufficient to reduce crashes

C is wrong because the conlusion does not assume increasing flying time alones is a sufficient condition to decrease the crashes. So if you try the negation test, the conclusion still stands because flying time is a contributor neverthelss, a necessary condition in this sense. This is what D says.