Originally Posted by
Fawad
There's was an article published by his daughter in a local paper. It's mostly how great and helpful her dad. I can understand the pressure the family is going through since the media is portraying the crew with suspicion. But in the flow, she also wrote how he would call his junior colleagues "Beta" or "Beti" (son or daughter). That might sound very affectionate and caring which she wrote to emphasize how good her father was, but it also means imposing your seniority on your colleague. No "beta" or "beti" would dare challenge your actions even when you mess up due to the atmosphere in the cockpit. We saw similar reasons in previous air crashes in Islamabad where FO would only give a slight suggestion in a weak voice to his "senior" captain (addressing him as sir) even when faced with imminent doom.
There are lots of factors at PIA that make senior pilots particularly dangerous even though they have so much experience.
Fawad I presume you are fluent in Urdu. Is there anything in this interview with
Usman Azam's brother that might give the FO's experience level with the A320? Thanks.
You will have to click on the 'Watch this video on YouTube' link that comes up when you try to play it here.
Last edited by Airbubba; 3rd Jun 2020 at 04:15.