Originally Posted by
VGCM66
Everybody forgot to: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate in that flight. So those same somebodies it seems ultimately ended up stalling the plane into the Ocean. Securing the flight by any means was priority number one, first and only. Once safe, they could have troubleshooted the problem then.
Cheers,
And what is the purpose of this post? We don't even know what happened, and yet you already assert that the flight crew screwed up. Oh, if only we could find enough pilots who never make any mistake, then everything would be perfectly safe.
But even suppose we find that someone did something which we now know contributed to the accident, here's something to keep in mind:
It is never enough to find out who made which mistake. It is more useful to ask
why the people at the sharp end did what they did. Almost always we find that what the pilots (or other operators) did, made sense to them at the time. With perfect hindsight, and all the time in the world to analyse, we sometimes find that it was not the best thing they could have done. But it is useful to try to understand their limited view of things and limited time and mental processing capacity available, to figure out what they might have thought, and how they might have reasoned. Don't start with the assumption that because they made a "mistake", that these pilots were particularly bad at their job. Others might make the same, or similar mistakes, faced with the same situation and the same set of incomplete, and perhaps seemingly contradictory, information available.
Only
then can we start and try to find ways to prevent it in the future.
As Sidney Dekker put it in "The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' "(paraphrasing): mistakes should not be seen as the cause of the accident, but as a symptom of larger problems.
Cheers,
Bernd