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Old 17th Mar 2019, 10:35
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DaveReidUK
 
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Originally Posted by groundbum
There would be huge value in having the two pilots of the Lion Air flight prior to JT610 describe what they saw and felt and how they worked through the failures and landed safely. Also to ask them what they knew of MCAS and the cutout switches at the time. I think this would inform the two accident investigations a lot in terms of human factors and how much workload they had on with cascading failures, horns etc.
It would also open up a huge can of worms regarding how Lion Air operates. As put, very eloquently, by a previous poster:

Originally Posted by Jo90
Having read (well skimmed) the interim report of the Lion accident particularly the part relating to the previous flight, it occurs to me that following a flight with major instrument discrepancies, continuous stick shaker and multiple uncommanded stab trim movements it might have been appropriate to add something to the tech log entries like "aircraft unfit for revenue flight pending maintenance action".

Would that have prevented the accident?


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