Originally Posted by
blind pew
AF447...glider pilot operating a one man band as captain chasing crumpet and senior first officer a wet paper bag (management doing a 90 day currency trip).
Originally Posted by
IcanCmyhousefromhere
I did raise my eyebrows at “captain chasing crumpet” however. To suggest so, unless factually correct, frankly does you no credit Sir and is appalling imho.
Here are a couple of appalling news reports on the subject.
From the
New York Post:
Marc Dubois, the 58-year-old captain, had left the cockpit to take a nap because he had been up all night with his mistress, and returned when it was too late to avoid catastrophe.The married captain was accompanied by gal pal Veronique Gaignard, an off-duty flight attendant and budding opera singer.
Dubois’ extramarital love life was not part of the official report, but it’s not disputed that the captain got just one hour of sleep the night before getting into Flight 447’s cockpit.
https://nypost.com/2014/10/13/the-la...sh-fwere-dead/
The BEA didn't think it was appropriate to delve into the reasons why the captain left the cockpit flying into a line of storms and took a while to come back after the plane went out of control.
From
ABC News:
Although it was never revealed what delayed Capt. Marc Dubois, two independent sources told ABC News that the 58-year-old veteran Air France pilot was traveling socially with an off-duty Air France flight attendant named Veronique Gaignard.
Jean-Paul Troadec, the director of BEA, the French authority conducting the investigation into the Flight 447 crash, told ABC News that Gaignard was not part of their investigation because the agency was "not interested" in the "private life of the pilot." Troadec added that he did not think Dubois's alleged relations with Gaignard aboard the plane would have played a role in the accident.
https://www.realclearhistory.com/201...ress_2552.html