Originally Posted by
Eutychus
SLF question: so "fly the damn airplane", oft-repeated above, would in this case be the worst possible advice (and was most likely what the luckless crew were trying to do)?
Yes that was the point.
Following the checklist with the cacophony of noise alerts and aural tones, the luckless souls were supposed to ignore all the noise, and NOT fly manually.
If what is contained in the article is correct, this is beyond a service bulletin and requires an immediate cessation of operations and grounding until the root source of the fault is identified, isolated and rectified.
Give the often repeated mantra of 'commercial viability' the regulatory authorities would appear (again if this article is correct) to be quite happy to throw the luckless pilots flying this junk under the oncoming bus.
It reeks of regulatory capture, with the usual caveat of waiting for the service bulletin to be promulgated.