Originally Posted by
gulliBell
Yep. Seen that all the time in the simulator. They won't say or do anything to save themselves at the critical moment they should be taking affirmative action to save themselves. They arrive at the scene of the smoking hole in silence, sitting on their hands. Although sometimes, flicking through a checklist and not much else (not suggesting of course that scenario applied in this AW139).
Nor was I suggesting the same cockpit scenario for the AW-139 tragedy....just that some really bad s..t can happen very quickly even with the best pilots and equipment.