stepwilk
Where do you come up with that "because she is a woman" stuff?
don't get me wrong, I'm not saying she was useless, all I'm saying is that this story is overblown.
You say "let's admit that what she needed to do, she was quite able to do", well tell us, what did she do?
You mentionned my experience. I have to update this, I have just passed my Multi-Engine flight test on Friday, and IFR flight test is planned for Wednesday. I'm flying to Africa next week to start my first job as a King Air F/O.
If you had put me in that 767 cockpit, i don't see what i could have done to help the captain: maybe read the checklists, turn on the lights, bring down the gear, comms. Not enough to make the news headline me thinks.
I'm really interested to hear from B767 captains on this forum about what tasks they would have assigned to the FA in such circumstances.