Originally Posted by
p51guy
EK lawyer said what I said a couple of days ago about the two FO's flying while the captain is taking his rest and how their experience would handle this massive instrument failure. I was deleted soon, so most here didn't see it. Even though people disagreed with me I notice here in the US copilots are not held to captain standards. I really don't think it is much different in other countries. We have an unknown command capability on this flight at the time of the encounter.
I would have thought the experience that the FO's on this flight would have the experience to deal with whatever situation they were confronted with, but in the
possibility of a catastrophic and sudden system or airframe failure, would the captain have done any better?