Originally Posted by HolyMoley
surely the chance of an aircraft having an unreliable speed issue one day and being lost the next due to a completely unrelated reason that also affects the airspeed (not removing pitot covers) must be vanishly small.
The probability of forgetting to remove the pitot covers on a day after there was a write up for Unreliable Airspeed is identical to the probability of forgetting to remove the pitot covers on a day after there was no write-up for UAS.
Not that I'm trying to claim that pitot covers are the cause here, but neither is it a given that the crash is due to an unreliable airspeed indication. That is just one of the few pieces of information that we have, that there was a UAS write-up on the previous flight, and there is speculation how that might have caused the crash, if it were to have reoccurred, whcih isn't a given.