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Old 18th May 2017, 13:42
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We are not doubting Sully's skills. He surely had it to manage also in normal law but the tremendous time pressure and doing something for which he wasn't trained distracted him from maintaining VLS in normal law so how can you rule out similar thing in alternate law. And saying direct law would have served him better is not my indictment but Sully's because he chose to put the APU on out of turn to remain in normal law. If it was in alternate or direct law with stall warning he would have pushed the nose down with no different results.The aircraft would have landed better in any law if speed was VLS. I am talking of the airplane behaviour not anybody's skills.
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