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Old 5th Feb 2015, 07:14
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The 3 cockpit crew

Was this likly a line training flight.One of the crew members had iover 16k hours and the other 2 had 6.9k and 4.5k respectively. This was no lack of experience scenario unless all 3 were low hours on type.Giving them all the benfiit of the doubt they probably did all thta was instinctly and procedurally possible to minimise damage. That last minute high bank might have been to avoid clipping the structures on the road across theior flight path with the intent of ditching into the river?Had they not clipped that car the plane might not have hit the road bank?I wish the crew are alive to tell the story in hindsight...but are they?Cockpit was submerged for a long time and they must have been strapped and probably might have been electrocuted with all the electrical and electronic bays behind their backs.

Any news of the recovery of the 3 cockpit crew?
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