Originally Posted by
SPA83
In the TK accident, the pilots made mistakes, that's right. But we cannot ignore that the aircraft was not really fit to fly :
The aircraft wasn't fit to fly
itself... which is why (I thought) we still have real pilots at the pointy end. The aircraft's automatics might have developed a slight suicidal tendency, but nothing reported so far appears to have suggested that it wasn't fit to fly
had someone actually been flying it.
More concerning to me is that:
- this aircraft is built with nice big real moving controls to make it (allegedly) a lot more obvious to the pilot what the automatics are doing, compared to a certain other type of aircraft
- and (as you noted) the aircraft warned its handlers, using its big moving controls, of this suicidal tendency tendency on multiple previous flights
- and...
And then we have no published info. What happened to those warnings ? no one noticed ? no one wrote it up ? no one acted on it ?
If this aircraft actually was, "not really fit to fly", then why did nine previous crews let it go back up ? Whichever way you look at it it looks like a huge chunk of human error turning what should have been a minor technical problem into a fatal crash.