Why would I try to convince tabloids or general public audience?
I am an IT engineer and a pilot.
I share with other pilots what I think is a reasonable guess.
If educated journalists want to read it and make their own educated guesses at what happened in this FAA simulator session ; fair enough.
Besides, I see commonalities between these 2 accidents and a bunch of others : Habsheim AirFrance 296, Athens Helios 522, Amsterdam Turkish Airlinek 1951, Adam Air flight 574 are just examples as there are many more.
Modern aircrafts are complex and in each of these accidents, the crew failed to understand that a system malfunctioned and failed to react appropriately, sometimes with lack of airmanship sometimes not.
Two possible explanations to this endless serie come to my mind:
1. pilots, on average, are rather stupid
2. Planemakers are making a bad job of explaining to pilots how these systems work. Possibly because they are convinced of 1.
The age of an airplane design is not a problem. I am happily flying regularly in an airplane that was designed in 1959.
Last edited by Luc Lion; 1st Jul 2019 at 21:00.