Originally Posted by
Piltdown Man
Everything we do is driven by cost - cheaper is perceived as being better. Our training is cut to the minimum prescribed, clowns in flight ops. departments prohibit things like manual flight and manual thrust and we spend our entire lives saving pennies. The same rot has moved into our technical departments. The clever little MBA whizz-kids have worked out how few spares we needs to carry and how little time we need to fix things so that engineers are nown under pressure to release aircraft they would prefer not to. And all of this is overseen by imbeciles like EASA (stress on the middle syllable).
From earlier:
The plane's flight control computer had a cracked solder joint that
malfunctioned repeatedly, including four times during the flight, and 23 times the previous year.
Just a question from maintenance/engineering side: what is the trouble shooting tree needed to isolate this fault when doing maintenance, and how long does that diagnostic take? The old "can't replicate it on deck" reply from maintenance is very frustrating for pilots, and for some maintenance folks.
While the switchology, upset training, and CRM issues and responses are germane, to a certain extent it looks like this crew were set up by a corporate culture issue that may not be confined to this airline.