Originally Posted by
Lookleft
The 777 was built to cope with redundancies that did not require extensive crew input. The QRH consists of a lot of condition statements rather than a lot of procedural steps. The number of 777 hull losses where no one was killed is impressive for a WB and is a testament to its engineering. So to suggest that an exploding oxy bottle is going to take out the crew and multiple systems just does not get past any rational scrutiny. If the crew, particularly an experienced PIC wanted to get that aircraft on the ground following an internal failure they would have done so. Any suggestion otherwise demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of the mind set and competency of a well trained professional flight crew.
..and I suspect that's one reason many in the industry find this niggling incident so troubling, coming as it does after QF32 where a cascade of unlucky events, combined with no-so-great-in-hindsight design decisions to very nearly, almost, trigger disaster.
Manufacturers, Air Transport Investigations folks and
well trained professional flight crew alike all like to learn from incidents. Could "Gee, we didn't think about THAT one!!" ever be said about about the B777? Without firm evidence from MH370, maybe they'll never know.