SoaringtheSkies,
And re redundancy and failure detection: if you can't decide from two, you need three.
Absolutely.
If my understanding is correct, the RA's are not talking to each other. Maybe they will in the near future?
One can hear the cogs whirring in the wider community already....
If only the aircraft had
more automation, it might have been able to assert itself when the pilots failed to assert themselves.
But wasn't it a failure of the automation that started the whole process in motion?
The system is only ever as strong as its weakest link, be it man or machine.
The accident is a classic example of why pilots
are needed. In fact, maybe a similar situation had occurred and been successfully overcome by the very pilots who placed the defect in the Tech Log previously?
It is just that these successful outcomes are never reported.
Increasingly, in the modern flightdeck whose reliability and capability is staggering, we are the last line of defence. The mandate is simple:
Fly the aircraft, don't let it fly you.
I propose a vote for more training...