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Old 1st Jun 2011, 21:26
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What does it matter who was PF?

I suppose some people are hoping to say, 'an inexperienced pilot made a mistake', so we can all sleep easy. Very tidy, sorry I don't buy it. Three qualified pilots were on duty and it still happened. I think we are going to see lots of learning from this, I just wish we had learnt from the previous cases where only N-1 holes lined up. Assuming you need 5 holes, at say 5% chance each then there should be around 95 cases where it nearly went wrong.

It is nice to see that this thread has calmed down a little, very few people are bragging that they would have called it right first time. Most of those who have come anywhere close to being qualified to claim "seen it, done it, worn the t-shirt", are showing great humility and might only be with us now thanks to ejector seats.

I am sure that Airbus will learn an enormous amount from this, and we will all be safer for it, a high price was paid, lets get value for money.
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