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Old 19th Jan 2008, 10:23
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rubik101
 
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If, as many posters have postulated, there was a major lack of response to the demand for power at or around 600', then pray tell me just what input the pilots had on the eventual outcome? They were as much passengers as the rest of the people on board.
If throttles/power levers fully forward and full aft elevator are not found to be the position at impact, I will be most surprised.
The pilot of the Iberia bounced landing in Bilbao is reviled and ridiculed with scorn, described as an amateur and badly trained. Now, in a far worse outcome, we have posters heaping praise on the crew of BA038. How silly will you all feel if the AAIB find the crew cocked up the whole thing?
While I am not suggesting this is the case here, please, until we know exactly what happened, can we try to refrain from handing out medals and signing off on the subsequent board of inquiry?
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