Originally Posted by
rotorspeed
This was no Swiss cheese - as in a sequence of broadly reasonable actions extraordinarily lined up to exploit the unlikely weaknesses in each to cause an accident. There was major incompetence at most stages, not least because neither crew could read their own perfectly serviceable EADI display to realise they were in an arcing descent into the sea - regardless of the upper mode setting failures - and suitably react.
Exactly. Apparently no basic instrument competence. And Lindbergh flew across the North Atlantic at night on needle, ball, and airspeed....