Originally Posted by
Lookleft
This is a good example of why cockpit video cameras should be mandatory. Voice recorders and data recorders can pick up a lot of things but a video recorder would have this incident resolved very quickly.
I had access to, and used, cockpit video and one second frame rate stills as a flight test engineer. These recordings can be a critical component of a flight test data set.
You just have to convince revenue crews, and their unions, they should be fitted. Good luck with that.