ACARS would have captured this for sure,certainly in my airline anyway.
In an IDEAL world he should have dumped fuel and gone back if he thought there was damage to the flaps,but he was not in command.
Anyway he is sharing information here and I can tell you things happen VERY rapidly when you have a low altitude level off followed by a turn and I am not going to criticise him on this forum,just learn from it.
I am about to retire from my present airline and briefly flirted with the idea of flying for AI for a year or two now I am glad I did not,too old to have to deal with an operation like this.
Last edited by faheel; 10th Oct 2010 at 00:57.