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Old 6th Nov 2010, 10:20
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100% right

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"I just want to point out my distrust in believing in the holy ECAM and sops in heavy failures. These things need to accept criticism as well and my message is that in this particular case the time issue has not been raised. I believe, allthough the crew did a great job, the time issue was not on the agenda and might have been fatal, as we now start discovering in the aftermath. "

The crew did a great job, no doubt.
The criticism is against the concept of the holy ECAM and sops in heavy failures. Time was certainly a massive issue here: after having seen the damage in those videos we know this for sure, therefore pure luck that the massive "loss of time" in favour of ECAM etc did not kill all.

Totally agree with the earlier post above. 100% right.
The real great risk is ECAM etc taking over anything else, including the time issue.
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