Originally Posted by
Grizzly Bare
If this is how professional airline radial engine drivers behave in an abnormal situation, then heaven help us all!
People DIED because this crew were not situationally aware/unprofessional/inept/incompetent (choose your own adjective).
Grizzly, your comments are inappropriate, certainly at this time I think, before anything more than a preliminary report with contradictions within is all we have to inform us.
Both pilots are still critically ill, neither has been able to relate their side of this story and we do not know the full extent of the problems they encountered. Hasty
condemnation of the crew is unwise and unfair, in my view. At least have the decency to wait until the full and final report is available before being so willing to
crucify the crew. I note you do not give any hint as to your qualifications, if any, to make such judgments.