Originally Posted by Alex Whittingham
The crew were trained so that, in the event of a failure above V2, they were to reduce speed to V2 and, as you say, they performed exactly as trained. You think that was a good technique to teach?
As I understand it, that was *procedure*, not *technique*. So that was what the syllabus and the instructors passed along to the students as part of the curriculum.
But it is not a good procedure as demonstrated. Early on, I was taught you don't change anything if you have a damaged airplane or an airplane with a control problem. You stay at the speed until you have enough altitude and control to find out what the limits of control are. The odd thing is that same concept is taught for an emergency descent, ie.. you descend at max speed unless you have a damaged airplane and then you descend at that speed.
It is unfortunate but we continue to see examples where normal procedures are confused with emergency events, sometimes with disastrous consequence.