Originally Posted by T Vasis
How did the crew pre-flight walk around fail to see this...
Read the report!
The captain looked up at and likely observed the fitted pitot covers, however they were required to be fitted at that time as per the operator’s policy
At 0904 the LAME re-entered the flight deck, certified for the transit check in the technical log, cleared the technical log entry for the fitment of the pitot covers, and removed the pitot cover warning placard from the flight deck pedestal.
”Between 0852:18 and 0854:03, the first officer conducted a preflight walk-around”.
Because the FO did a walk around of an A350 in less than 2 minutes.
A speedy walkaround indeed but obviously totally irrelevant to the pitot covers issue.