Originally Posted by Rananim
In the States,the Captain would have his ticket revoked.It amazes me that so many here have expressed support for the decision that this Captain took.
Electing to continue a 5000nm flight following a surge/stall IFSD can not be condoned under any circumstances.BA's denial that commercial considerations played any part is frankly a lie.
The regulation concerned does not support such a decision and anyone who believes that it does is purposely misconstruing the intent of the regulation to suit their commercial requirements.Regulators cant regulate for good common sense or sound judgement;they assume that an airline pilot has plenty of that to begin with.
My read is that this is nothing more than unbased opinion without the benefit of fact.
What we need in this thread is a running summary or poll of for or against. That way we could clean up the remaining thread and reserve it for new facts.