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Old 17th Jul 2002, 18:32
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Rananim
 
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I see the poor first officer had never flown anything other than the A320,and that the Captain started life as a F/E.Dangerous combination.It worries me that 200 hour pilots should go straight into an Airbus 320;where do they get the chance to build the basic flying skills?Perhaps if he'd done a bit of time on a proper aircraft,he would have known which way was up and which way down.As for the skipper,he had flown the 767(a fine a/c) and the L1011 but his first command was the 320.Add to this he only had 100 hours as 320 skipper.And there you have the reason for this crash.How were these two pilots allowed to operate together?This Captain needed a high-time First Officer who had good flying skills(2 years on a 767) but who was also experienced on the computerized Eurobus.
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