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Old 4th Jul 2011, 16:48
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Ct.Yankee
 
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SOP's as guidelines

Remember the AA DC10 at KORD? They were fine at V2+15 when their engine fell off taking out the hydraulics to the LED's. What killed everybody is the crew followed AA SOP at the time and slowed to V2. Now their SOP is if they are at V2 to V2+15 hold the higher speed, don't slow to V2.

What would you have done? Follow SOP and slow to V2 or stick with what was working at V2+15? Reading some responses here I see some who wouldn't be with us any more if they had been on that crew.
Bubbers44 is absolutely correct.
I was an F/O at the time and the discussions around our crew rooms agreed that if the Capt. had let the F/O, who was doing a good job of handling the emergency, instead of taking the aircraft and flying by Company SOP's, which are a good guide, AA191's crash would have not happened.
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