Northen Krestal, THANKS for the link to the supervising CKA interview.
Some REALLY fascinating reading!
One outake.......
Its one of those things that because we had five of us on the flight deck – of course there are lessons to be learned but I think on the day we did absolutely everything. In hindsight I don’t think any of us would have done anything differently. Questions were asked ‘why did we spend so long in the air’? But we had to spend that time in the air to determine the state of the aircraft and it took that long to do that. I think we made the right decision to keep everyone on the aircraft. We had the contingency to evacuate the aeroplane at any moment if things deteriorated. We had fire services in attendance. Certainly we had an engine we couldn’t shut down and that engine continued to run for another five hours before the fire services drowned it with fire retardant.
Uh, oh....near the start of the published interview,the CKA was quoted using the the word.....engine
explosion.
That will probably generate some discussion here.
