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Old 21st May 2011, 09:04
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I can't agree with any of that, Mountainbear.

manual flying may or may not be of any help because by the time it gets kicked back to the pilot it may already be too late.
Not good enough. This is not NASA testflying; this is mass transportation. It's supposed to be safe enough not to worry too much about things that go wrong that kill everybody because the pilots can't control the aeroplane. While some would argue that double-engine failures are a possibility, they have designed-in failure rates (well above the on-wing time, of course).

You cannot say the same about, for example, QF 72, where a defect caused the aeroplane to be uncontrollable. Why did that defect have that effect? Because somebody didn't build in a error checking circuit. That is not an accident. That's a stuffup and all efforts should be made to fix it, including pumping out bulletins.

You're basically making excuses for technology that has got ahead of itself.

If that requires lots of bulletins, then so be it until they fix it. To suggest that we just accept the crash "recognizing that might be cold comfort to the pilots and passengers whose bad luck it was to be on such an ill-fated flight, but at least it would cut down of the A$$ covering and lengthy bulletins", is, quite frankly, pretty poor.
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