BA038
May I offer another reaon why I absolutely believe this whole thing stinks.
In the last ten years or so TWO One World jets have been destroyed, a QF 744 in BKK (yes I know it was "repaired" ) and the BA777 at LHR.
I have read the accident reports on both :
In one, a perfectly serviceable jet was "badly mishandled" being polite after reading the CASA synopsis. The Captain still flies, with his original employer, having made some very serious and fundamental errors of basic airmanship which caused the "loss" of his aircraft. I make that statement after almost 20 years in the LHS of various Boeings and after reading the report in detail.
In the other, a captain saved a situation which few, if any, of us had been trained for. He had less than 50 seconds before he hit the ground. The report makes NO significant criticism of his handlng of the event and concurrs that his flap retraction WAS the right and only thing he could have done to save the day.
This captain is now out of a job.
That, to me at least, seems a HUGE injustice.