Originally Posted by fireflybob
That said, of course, we shouldn't forget that the odd accident happened on the real aircraft when practising the training which we now routinely conduct in the simulator.
The crash of Airborne Express N827AX is illustrative of this, and it also speaks to a failure of basic airmanship.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable causes of this accident were the inappropriate control inputs applied by the flying pilot during a stall recovery attempt, the failure of the nonflying pilot-in-command to recognize, address, and correct these inappropriate control inputs, and the failure of ABX to establish a formal functional evaluation flight program that included adequate program guidelines, requirements and pilot training for performance of these flights.
Contributing to the causes of the accident were the inoperative stick shaker stall warning system and the ABX DC-8 flight training simulator’s inadequate fidelity in reproducing the airplane’s stall characteristics.
http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/reports/1997/aar9705.pdf