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Old 27th May 2019, 15:38
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But.......who will write the reports? National authorities of the affected airlines.

Who are, of course, not "western".

The number of posts on these pages from boofhead, 737 Driver, yanrair et al., making the same point over and over again, must now be in the hundreds. (737 Driver averaged four-plus posts a day in his meteoric career, then abruptly vanished without a cry.) The accident aircraft were "flyable". Yes, but they quite clearly became less flyable by the second, as long as the crews failed to do the right thing. The crews did not follow correct procedures, Well, they were confronted with a rapidly worsening defect that they'd never been trained to recognize. Properly trained, competent pilots, not "children of the magenta line" should have coped anyway. Really? The simple fact is that as automated aircraft and simulator training have proliferated, and as the number of hours required to enter the right seat has declined, air safety has improved. The final accident reports will be a whitewash, err "westernwash". Hmm, cui bono here?

Why all this repetition? I am tempted to listen to the advice of that great strategist Auric Goldfinger: Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, and...
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