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Old 14th Oct 2011, 22:53
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DozyWannabe
 
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The Interim Report No. 3 summarises the conduct of the flight and the crew perfectly adequately by the standards of any modern accident investigation report I've read.

In short, it states that nothing out of the ordinary was observed during the earlier portion of the flight with either the crew or the aircraft. No-one bar the crew entered the flight deck, nothing untoward happened with the aircraft. The only question mark over CRM concerns the apparent lack of specific role delegation when the Captain summoned the PNF in order to take his rest period, and the implication seems to have been that the Captain left the PF (junior F/O) in charge. This may or may not have affected the PNF's decision making during the accident sequence, but to me his apparent concern with getting the Captain back ASAP indicates that he felt his options were limited. Weather was clearly being discussed prior to the PNF's arrival (which is included in the BEA's transcript) and continued to be discussed with the PNF present prior to the accident sequence.

Because nothing out of the ordinary happened prior to the accident sequence, it is unlikely that the PF would have had trouble recalling memory items, as they are both rote and routine. Emergency memory items are a completely different case.
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