Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
yoko1, I have been an aircraft commander in a multi-crew aircraft who has taken controls when the other pilot was having difficulty controlling the aircraft - *
And so have I, but that is a very different situation when the Captain/Aircraft Commander deems it is necessary to intervene. In the JT601 event, we are talking about a situation when the Captain voluntarily and with intent hands off the controls to his First Officer. If someone wishes to argue that the Captain gave his First Officer a handful of out-of-trim aircraft, I’m just going to have to point out that this would have been another crew error - which works against the narrative that there were no significant crew errors that led to the loss of control. You can’t have it both ways.