Gretchen
Let me repeat my post from November 6, I'd like to uphold it even more fervently after such news .....
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To me the crew might have been very professional, at least the modern electronic way. But at the same time they must have been very, very lucky.
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.
I'd rather let the engineers and office-seat-cushion-warmer-pilots, as well as all their lawyers admonish me later that handling ECAM No49 according to bulletin No3458, paragraph 2, article 75 would have made their work to cover their asses a little easier, therefore they would dismiss me and sacrifice me as the sole responsible for this failure, rather than flying 2 hours with a badly hurt aircraft of which you have no idea what has been damaged in addition to the exploded donkey, the one that has just quit obeying your orders and some hydraulic driven devices that do no longer function!
I guess after realising and reflecting on the state of his plane, 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!
Don't you wish YOU coulda' changed places with those 5 highly experienced (according to rumours) Captains/pilots ?? Just think how amazingly your snap decisions and command authority would have amazed all of us. What a bunch of dummies, compared to
You were/are. I can just imagine the danger you face, navigating your keyboard thru the maze of difficulties, as you quickly determine the fate of you and those aboard your computer. If only those Qantas pilots had had a direct line to
YOU to sort out their mess! What dolts they obviously were, as it certainly never occurred to them that fatal results to themselves and the poor souls behind the cockpit door could occur depending on the decisions made!