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Old 17th May 2004 | 06:46
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FlightDetent

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From: Commuting not home
Perhaps for a flight engineer. Who would have known beforehand anyway.

What I learned from the accident was (again) that's there's no such thing as emergency without urgency. I mean to say that all souls lost that night needed just a piece of time.

For a two-member crew the task of handling the complex systems (remember there's still the same amount of work to be done as 30 yrs ago, it is just that the computers make it faster for you and you watch, but it must be done) leaves only little spare capacity to be put in use in emergency.

If the post-111 airborne fire mantra is to land immediately, than the two of the crew need to put their best efforts in doing so.

My opinion.
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