BOAC;
Have I missed something about the crash? How on earth have we got to 'covering the controls', 'visual circuits' and circling'????
and,
Yup - you've got it! While you are changing those lightbulbs WE are wondering why a 737 smashed into the ground, stalled, from an ILS.
Its a sign that the thread has run it's useful life but nobody wants to pronounce.
Sources of information have gone silent, the trail has gone cold. The CVR transcript isn't going to show up anytime soon if ever, nor will anything likely be available from the DFDR, perhaps until the final report, if/when that shows up. In the absence of this information we can surmise that the information is damning to the crew but we will not find out why or what actually occurred.
Same outcome as the EK crew-firing and criminal prosecution/jail for crews involved in incidents/accidents: - A human factors accident occurs and, for political, cultural, legal or economic reasons, the profession and the industry is denied the opportunity to learn and keep the fatal accident rate low and going lower.
In a broader view of this profession, silence when there is crucial safety information available but which is "inconvenient", is not an appropriate nor a responsible approach.
Crew firings, criminal prosecutions and the desecration of the profession by managements which consider airline pilots "expensive" and which knock the stuffing out of the profession are the collateral outcomes of such trends, the justifications for all of which are instrumental and which have nothing to do with flight safety.