Gretchenfrage
I'd rather be a little less proficient in handling ECAM, QRH, FCOM, bulletins and all that papaer cr@p and get my plane down as fast as possible.
which is where we'll disagree
The Final Report will be very interesting. There is no requirement to
that handling ECAM No49 according to bulletin No3458, paragraph 2, article 75
- but the prime factor in Emergency Handling is often time management, and rarely (and almost certainly not here)
get my plane down as fast as possible
As posted above, certain events did time add pressure to these guys (increasing lateral imbalance?), and they had to judge when that consideration overrode reducing AUW and gaining, as far as possible, a better understanding / briefing of the approach.
But at the same time they must have been very, very lucky.
How can one say that? Maybe they were "very very unlucky" in how/where the damage occurred/interracted? And as I posted above, it would be interesting to know how "close" they were to a critical failure i.e. were they ever one (further) system failure from a catastrophic outcome?
the captain will send a prayer or two to whoever he worships for the lucky escape and next time will do a very quick return!
I somewhat doubt it
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