According to one of the Monday local rags. The crew landed the aircraft after 40 minutes and a "technically complicated" manoeuver.
What ever.
When I fly as a passenger, which happens occasionally ..... then I would say that, the crew did what they had to do and are, lets face it paid to do. Thats why they are there, not only to get the aircraft from A to B just like any high street bus driver, but also to get it back on the ground in the event of something like this.
What ever, they did their job correctly and full marks to them for that.
The 146/RJ is a good aircraft.
If it was an airbus, say an a320 etc, I am not so sure what the computers would have done, and I am also not sure if the pilots would have known what the computers would have done either! I am not an airbus driver, I tend to aviate the more traditional types.
Maybe someone who knows what they are talking about can tell us all what would happen if this happened in an airbus? Oh and please no airbus sales people who only say "the software is perfect and that is the pilots fault if anything goes wrong"
Yes, in general, we need pilots in the cockpit and a full over ride for automated systems.
