Pilot Talks
John Coward has made some interesting comments to a Sky reporter on the phone.
He said he wasn't aware of anything being wrong until the very final stages of the approach when he suddenly realised there was going to be what he feared would be an almighty crash.
Far from yesterday's statement from the Captain that crew training took over automatically - Coward says there are absolutely no drills for handling a situation such as the one they faced. Whereas there are, of course, procedures for losing power at higher altitudes - there's nothing in the manual to prepare a pilot for what he should do when the power fails at 600 feet
Last edited by sandbank; 19th Jan 2008 at 15:43.