Originally Posted by
junior.VH-LFA
A very highly experienced (both time on type and exposure to fire bombing operations) crew lost their lives this season in a well maintained and capable aircraft. You’d be hard pressed to find a better crew/aircraft combination in the world.
And you think it’ll be “minimal” training.
Sure.
It’s very easy to bring that up as a throw-away line to harden a point of view and if anyone were to post back right now with what truly happened (before the report was released) there would be a barrage of comment world wide.
The best way to summarise this tragedy and how it is at all relevant to this discussion, would be to say... do you ever see airline crew tasked to fly from Melbourne to Sydney, performing a flyby of the Canberra tower on the way past?