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Old 20th Oct 2014, 19:05
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Chronus
 
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Finger trouble

Just read the AAIB report which basically amounts to a case of itchy finger trouble.

Well rested crew, all well outbound and all well until ATC rightly and properly calls for G/A shortly thereafter all goes for a ball of chalk and stress levels go exponential.

The only excuse a shrink comes up with is a Captain worried about impending demotion and that we all suffer with an itchy right thumb. I say, what would have happened if first officer was PF, would he have had an itchy left thumb. The RAF joke used to be Left and Right written on the white chami gloves. Should we now add A/T on the right thumb.

I am afraid whichever way one looks at this incident it is an inescapable conclusion that it was all down to the crew.
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