Originally Posted by
albatross
A very experienced pilot friend and a very smart guy (don’t tell him I said that!) looked at these posts and said “Humm aren’t you folks getting focused on the seaworthiness of the lifeboats on the Titanic and kind of ignoring the cause of the ship hitting the iceberg?” He has a way of saying things like that. He will not post on aviation sites and seldom, if ever, even looks at them, except when I occasionally drag him, kicking and screaming, over to my computer screen. He has a point.
I think that’s given - clearly the cause is of paramount interest. But…..whatever that cause was, they ended up in the water and the result was not what we would all expect. Even the Malaysian 139 that fell out of the sky, spinning, a few days ago, had inflated floats!