Imabell
For what its worth when I read your post the first time I had intended to "pass on my regards to the crew for a job well done" but I think Bronx is right, we (or maybe just me, don't seem to feel the same sense of commradary that we/I have for western pilots that have suffered similar incidents) so please pass on my respect and regards to the crew concerned, and I will endeaver to take a broarder view from now on.
What does bother me about this incident is that a $3 tea towell was able to bring down and potentially kill 20 people and destroy a $3mil aircraft.
Had this aircraft been fitted with evan a basic intake mesh filter this would have resulted in nothing more than compressor surging and hopefuly would have not needed the highly skilled intervention from the crew as seen above.
Please do not read this as a critsizm of the crew but moreover a rant at the certifying authorities that make what would appear basic protection prohibitivly expensive.
