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All this crm and where has it got us?The Captain is pilot in command and it is his/her ship from pushback to on chocks.No-one else's.All this politically-correct chat about planned rest being done according to Ops or which pilot has a baby at home or did you get undisturbed rest etc.I know what 411 would say and I am here to say it for him.The Captain looks at the planned route and forecast weather and ensures that he/she is in the LHS when weather/terrain(cabin depressure) or whatever risk he thinks might be encountered along the route is present.TIRED OR NOT.He/she decides this nobody else!And any Captain who lets this decision be made for him/her is a fool,an emasculated fool.
The flight should have diverted around the weather to begin with!!A good Captain would never have flirted with ITCZ weather like this.25-50nm lateral separation minimum with or w/o clearance.
The failure to carry out the stall recovery is a mystery and as others have said the only excuse can be distraction from multiple warnings,lack of training and year-in year-out automation reliance.
I look at the safety statistics and two airlines stick out;SWA and Qantas.They are beacons in this rapidly deteriorating profession.Airmanship is all that you need to stay alive up there,nothing else matters.
Could someone please explain clearly when "stall" warning is inhibited in these wonderful Airbus aircraft again?Dependent on law or speed?An aircraft that is stalling should never have the stall warning inhibited.