Originally Posted by
3holelover
These poor blighters were more computer programmers than pilots. They needed an old geezer.... and when their best shot at that re-entered the cockpit, he'd missed the beginning of it all, and in any case his AF training had probably left a whole quilt of cobwebs on any "Old" pilot within him.
Don't agree on that single point.
The PF said he didn't have control of the plane. In fact he had full control of the plane, he was just a muppet.
Captain turns up, PF says aircraft out of control, what's the captain supposed to think? He has to believe the PF, that the aircraft is out of control, and he (and PNF who should have caught this sooner) simply ran out of time to work out it wasn't.
Reading that CVR transcript, words fail me.
The PF fooled them both and a couple of hundred people died.