A message to me! What fun!
Originally Posted by BoeingMEL
PBL, it pleases me to note that you have belatedly acknowledged CFIT as the most likely cause of this accident. (Exactly as some of us did over 3 months ago)
BoeingMEL, you'll get no credit from me simply for guessing right. Indeed had you said "It was CFIT" when first hearing the words "commercial airplane crash" you would historically have been right about, oh, 40% of the time IIRC.
Originally Posted by BoeingMEL
May I respectfully remind you that you disparaged me when I took Skydrol Leak to task for his ludricous [sic] analysis (stall, low-level impact, engine-out etc) on November 30th and that you diagnosed "loss of control" in your post of December 4th?
Well, technically SL is still more or less right, and if you want to contrast your guess with his then I still think SL's was better. I think the wreckage suggests he stalled it in. The details of the track seem to show, though, that he pointed it at the mountain on what he thought to be an approach, which makes classifying it as CFIT more sensible than as LOC. It seems the radar tracks are all anyone's got, so I doubt we'll hear much more about this accident.
Originally Posted by BoeingMEL
You suggested in an early post that those of us who suggested CFIT and dismissed some outrageous suggestions, should "have the grace to apologise."
Not because of your beliefs, obviously, but because you were unnecessarily rude. And I am glad to see you are still smarting from the reprimand.
PBL