there is a big difference between 'SAFE' and 'UNEVENTFUL . Airline management, bean counters, Nasa Engineers etc, have for years equated an absence of incidents with 'safety' with inevitable disastrous results. what would have been the outcome if there a pitot tube blockage etc and a sudden departure from Auto Pilot into alternate law with 'spurious stall warnings'? with total lack of situational and contextual awareness, what would their first move be? The growing reliance on automated everything (good) coupled with an eager atrophy of basic flying skills is a recipe for disaster. What would have been the investigative path for this fatal crash?
The pilot and co-pilot of a Go! Airlines jet failed to respond to calls from air traffic controllers for 18 minutes during the February 2008 flight from Honolulu to Hilo
pPrune would have been filled with all kinds of Airbus vs Boeing invective, demands that he should have kicked off the purser at the earliest opportunity and of course relating the infamous 600 mph office.
whom would even theorize that the pilots were simply asleep, hit a bunch of turbulence, reacted inappropriately due to their disoriented state and had a major unrecoverable upset?