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Old 6th Apr 2019, 21:42
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Double Back
 
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Not active any more but I never forgot the Convair accident due to a reversed trim:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...cables-326251/
The last weeks It crossed my mind I might have tried to trim even more nose down, in a desperate last attempt to see if the nose would come up...Which in this case would only have sped up the outcome of course...
Remember, those guys were loosing it big time, they were desperate...
Many accidents I have played back in my mind ( a kind of survival procedure for me to deal with terrible accidents), with me making the right decisions and saving the day.
But there are a few cases where I cannot find a realistic better outcome. Like JAL123. I think this MCAS affair is close to that, although technically it was survivable. But You would have to get immediately into the right direction of thinking.
How many times in YOUR career the SIM had to be stopped because Your crew was going down the drain, following a completely wrong lead? I was stopped at least once if I remember correctly....
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