Have a close friend at EK and says the airline screwed up last year cos he flew 899:54 and they lost 6 minutes of productivity last year. Jokes aside. he says he walks into a room at home and can't remember why he did so. Subtle but poignant. Like has been mentioned numerous times before, one of the most incipient symptoms of fatigue is the inability to identify such a state.
The FZ disaster was an unfortunate eventuality. The circumstances tragically lined up. I sat in my flight deck today and pushed my trim down for 12 seconds. I can assure you, that is not a normal or sane thing to do.
Fatigue is a clear and present danger in this region and we are flirting with danger every time we step into the flight deck knowing that we have been cornered and pushed to our limits.