Originally Posted by Lorimer
... but Archae 86, what was her very last sentence? Something like:
"This was a visual approach which is a completely normal approach flown on a nice day with 10 mile visibility."
A very telling comment I would suggest, which she didn't have to make, but has a telling inference.
She said something very like that, but the context is important. She had been asked a challenging question, of approximately the form "You said another day these planes could land themselves, and said today all the systems were working fine, so how could it get so far off in both speed and altitude. Aren't your claims in conflict with each other".
A rough approximation to her answer was "but it was not doing an autoland--they were hand flying it" and went on to say that was a perfectly reasonable thing to be doing--using comments you likely recall more accurately than I.
(at least that's what I recall)