Originally Posted by
bean
No. There is no way of knowing who moved the droop lever other than it was one of the three pilots. you have not read the report thoroughly
That’s true. However looking at the experience of the crew we can draw our own conclusions.
Captain Key was aged 51 and had 15,000 flying hours experience, including 4,000 on Tridents. Keighley was aged 22 and had joined line flying a month and a half earlier, with 29 hours as P2. Ticehurst was aged 24 and had over 1,400 hours, including 750 hours on Tridents
Key would have immediately noticed the problem unless he was incapacitated.The other two were far too inexperienced.