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Old 26th Mar 2015, 18:14
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Experienced Captains, especially in Asia have an understanding of what probably happened in this case, it was likely not suicide. It was probably "bunny in the headlights" syndrome. It happens a lot, in my personal experience, with low hour First Officers. They get themselves into situations they don't know how to get out of, they are paralysed with fear and they just wait for the Captain to rescue them. This may happen less in Europe but of course it happens. These guys that I fly with come out of renowned worldwide training schools. What is unusual in this case is that the First Officer got himself into this situation in the cruise and when the Captain could not rescue him, this was bad luck.

I have laughed along with co-pilots at the foolish things that they have done as we both knew that it was part of their learning experience.
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