Originally Posted by
NoelEvans
I feel that fatigue is a very, very valid factor in this crash and the report does not look into that aspect in anywhere enough detail.
Originally Posted by
mryan75
How on earth do you mistake the condition levers for the flaps in an ATR? You almost couldn’t do that if you tried. There are two condition levers and one flap, the condition levers are bigger, longer, different shape entirely. It’s an astounding mistake.
The fatigue thing is irrelevant. I suspect I know exactly what happened. Why? Because I once reached for the wrong lever(and tried to operate it) when landing flaps was called(damn good thing what I tried to activate didn't activate). Why did this happen? Because I didn't look before touching, which is something all pilots should do. And instead of making a deliberate action at moderate speed, I reached out quickly and grabbed.
Bottom line, the pilot made a huge mistake and we should not try to cover it up with the fatigue excuse again. We should learn from it. Look then activate at a normal pace.
I still remember my memory items for an emergency in skydiving in order to deploy the reserve chute when the main parachute does not deploy: LOOK-REACH-PULL. And that no doubt came from the fact that people died because they were pulling on something other than the reserve handle for the rest of their life.