Originally Posted by
Nightstop
A cabin crew member doesn’t need to be in the flightdeck to pass on important information to the pilots. CRM extends throughout the Crew, from most junior to the most Senior. Perhaps the Minister was alluding to the fact that the cabin crew didn’t communicate important information to the flightdeck after the gear up go around? On the other hand, perhaps you’re right..he doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about.
Somewhere in the previous 67 or so pages, the question was asked whether the flight deck would have been aware of the runway scrape, perhaps this is not so far fetched as it may sound.
They are sitting a good distance ahead of the engines, they SHOULD be wearing headsets and the various audio warnings etc. have been widely referred to elsewhere.
Information such as this is not usually included in a preliminary report, or a brief pertaining to that report, unless there is a line of enquiry open.
Certainly, the cabin crew should be on the interphone pdq if they had heard the scrape, and or seen the sparks, on the flip side, they are trained to not be over insistent with the emergency call button at a time that they believe the flight crew may be extremely busy, perhaps dealing with the very thing they are about to report.
Perhaps the question is whether that call was actually made.
On the gear and speedbrake question: for that we will definitely have to await the CVR information, but it does seem to fit in terms of timeframe with the idea that one crew member had reason to believe that the approach was being discontinued.
Just observations obviously, and we await further.