Originally Posted by
Pilot DAR
Though I have happily never had any experience with pilot incapacitation, I have had occasion a number of times (as a volunteer firefighter) to witness people having incapacitating medical events. I have witnessed people going rigid, and people going limp. I have never witnessed a person apply forceful asymmetric body motions. Slumping forward on the controls likely, applying them asymmetrically, less so...
I completely agree - it's a very strange hypothesis. The AAIB seem to be obsessed with this incapacitation hypothesis recently with GA - if they don't know, they should just say they don't know!
I'm suspect most TPs would return a similar 'surely the pilot would have noticed' response to
most pre-impact control inputs! For the AAIB to suggest incapacitation as a counter argument is a bit silly really. I'd suggest it likely that the pilot initiated a go-around in response to
something!