Jabawocky
A simple and firm yell..... GOING AROUND....AND GEAR IS UP as he pushes the gear lever up and pushes the throttles to 100%.....
Centaurus
The F/O failed to take direct action to prevent the accident. Words mean nothing apart from covering himself legally via the CVR. The obvious action is to order the captain to go-around and at the same time reach over and select the landing gear lever to up. The F/O had ample opportunity to do just that.
Afterwards, whilst being away from a dynamic actual cockpit scenario at the time of an event, having all the time in the world to put all known and recorded facts and several ‘what-if’s’ side by side, with nothing else bothering the mind other than only assessing a particular accident, evaluating it whilst stationary seated behind a desk or similar, it is very easy to state what could or should have been done…
Things that could have been done by a FO, who was actually seated in an aircraft doing a routine flight on a routine day and planned to do a routine circling approach, as the captain changed his mind regarding the briefed circling approach and elected to change for a straight in approach.
Most probably from that moment on the FO found himself suddenly in an ever-changing situation that required very fast thinking. He had very little time to put the changed facts that his mind was bombarded with so suddenly and the consequent ‘what-if’s’ side by side and in perspective. Certainly also a lot of spontaneous upcoming second thoughts would have bothered his mind.
He had to do the evaluating of all this whilst listening to ‘his master’s voice’ speeding down towards the runway in a plane driven by his master.
Unfortunately, reality shows that:
it is not simple to do just that obvious action…
Kind regards, learner . . .
