Original Quotes by flarepilot:
NOw, quit talking about this please
Not so fast!
Lessons that should be learned from this crash.
#1. Just because you drive a Cadillac doesn't mean you can't have a wreck.
Engineers should think like pilots and make safeguards of every conceivable type to protect pilots from killing people.
Being an engineer, I think aircraft designers and propulsion engineers do a reasonable job at incorporating safeguards of every conceivable types reasonably expected, trouble is new unreasonably types keep being invented.
Pilots should think like engineers and know that very few planes are as strong as pilots think they should be.
Everyone should know that if you cycle something back and forth often enough and rapidly enough it will eventually break, it is called fatigue determined by the severity of the forces generated during the cycling and how many times it was cycled.
The FAA better make darn sure everyone knows more about their planes and that training and examination proves everyone knows.
Don't you think the airlines and their pilot training organizations have more of the responsibility for this? It seems to me those closest to the issues play the biggest role and bear the most responsibility. Organizations like the FAA tend to be recorders of input and history and whatever they record is dependent on input from the front line players. Perhaps learning of aircraft automation in training today has displaced basic learning of how the airplane actually works (minus the automation) with less emphasis on the dos and don't when it is required, that is, when the autos drop out and you have to hand fly.