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Old 18th Jan 2008, 15:08
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venkoj
 
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Anyone wondered who the first officers were on the BA038? The captain has received a lot of praise in the media, but there has been no mention of the other 2 pilots, each of whom is as likely as the captain to have been handling the jet at the time. So far I've not even heard their names mentioned... Just a thought...
I remember the name John Coward being mentioned as the FO. I presume most of the hype has been around the captain as the majority of people would presume that he, as the man in overall charge of the aircraft, was in control during the landing.

But then as we know FOs are often handed the responsibility of landing in order to gain experience. Following all we have heard so far (mostly unconfirmed stories of course) that the events unfolded so quickly and unexpectedly, I wouldn't even be surprised if the FO was PIC on landing and the captain didn't have time to take over control of the a/c....
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