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This afternoon an aircraft carrying 43 passengers bound for Manchester Airport from Bologna, Italy has crashed on the approach to the runway. We have reason to believe, that there are a few survivors, including the pilot, who is female.
The circumstances leading up to the accident are being investigated by the company and the AAIB.
All evidence seems to suggest, that a chain of errors was not broken by any of the involved parties and led to the loss of life.
The investigators came to the conclusion, that the following points contributed to the accident:
1. Inadequate roster patterns: GLA-BLQ is minutes short of legal FTL's. It does not leave any margin for any kind of delays and unforseen circumstances.
2. The pilot admitted to being "tired" after being up almost all night with her small child...
3. Adding to the fatigue was the pressure she felt put under, due to a new FO on type, bad weather conditions over the alps and being "pro-company", to keep the schedule going despite adverse additions such as operational change of CCrew after the first two sectors and slot delays.
The GMFO is suggesting that the whole sad accident could have been avoided if the pilot would have taken the sensible decision with safety in mind and exercised her discretion to not extend her own and her crew's flying duty.
As she chose not to they are now blaming HER.
The trial will begin next week and it will be one of the first criminal trials televised and broadcast live.