Originally Posted by
parkfell
Had it not been for the Carbon Monoxide poisoning, & possible AP intermittent fault, I suspect that there is every likelyhood that
the “Swiss cheese holes accident model” would not have aligned.
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From the reports of his quality of flying in IMC and his ILS I have my doubts about that. South and West UK had 30KT gusts in rain showers with low cloud TCU on a South Easterly tracking cold front as I recall, a challenging set of weather for a fully ‘current’ crew regardless of CPL or PPL with all the ticks in the right boxes.
We’ll never know but there’s still more than enough holes to perfectly align for an incident on this trip with the known issues without any CO issues that may have contributed.