Originally Posted by
yanrair
Can I ask a question? How did the jump seat pilot on the flight the day before the fatal Lionair crash know what to do?
Perhaps s/he checked the QRH. Perhaps watching the spinning trim wheels from the jump seat triggered some insight into the situation. As you know, we don't really know with any clarity.
. . . it seems to me that the situation was indeed survivable since, well, it landed safely . . .
So? The fact that one of three crews known to have faced the situation didn't end up smashed to pieces, with all of their passengers, hardly suggests that the situation is adequately "survivable" to justify continuing to permit the aircraft to fly -- and there isn't a CAA on Planet Earth that believes it does.