The investigation will continue.
Gents,
The pilots can be pressured to resign, but this is a major accident and will be investigated accordingly.
If two competent pilots committed such a serious error, while two more competent pilots were observing from the jumpseats, certainly someone will want to know how and why. Maybe the regulators, maybe the traveling public, maybe the training or safety departments at Emirates.
The pilots can resign, the company can duck and cover, Airbus can claim they build a safe aircraft, but this investigation will continue.
If it was a fatigue related error, maybe some changes need to be made, maybe ULR flying and only 12 days off in a month is an incompatible mixture that should be handled with the utmost care?
Last edited by gotoindia; 13th Apr 2009 at 11:14.
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