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Old 13th Nov 2011, 16:42
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Having spent my life in aviation keeping heavies serviceable ,all I can say after reading through that report from the RAS interview is that the crew demand the utmost respect for handling the situation the way they did.By there own admission,they could not simulate it on the ground,to me that shows what tremendous airmanship prevailed on the flight deck that day.Agreed,they had perhaps more than a normal flight crew contingent but that does nothing to alter the fact of how they coped.Apart from engine failures,an enormous amount of ECAM messages,alternate law in abundance,hydraulic fluid loss, fuel loss,spurious indications,an aircraft in serious danger of going out of trim, busbar loss and to cap it all,an APU whose generators would not come on-line ....you could not script such a spectacular sequence of failures.They all deserve all the credit there is. No doubt this one will be spoken about for years to come.
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