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Old 2nd Jul 2012, 02:12
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Originally Posted by gatbusdriver
The AF accident did not happen because of a lack of hand flying on every other sector. It happened because the wrong pilot was in the wrong seat at the wrong time. There was a failure to recognise the stall and carry out recovery on behalf of the handling pilot and PM was unaware of the inputs of PF due to side stick.
gatbusdriver, do you care to offer an opinion as to why PF was unable to hack the program? What was missing from his training or background? The retrospective view of "He didn't hack the program." really doesn't tell us what the problem was.
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