Originally Posted by
EMIT
Chronus
I think that the investigation did examine the possibility and their (justified) conclusion is that weather played no part - i.e. FDR parameters did not show undue turbulence, which would have shown up as choppy acceleration traces, etcetera.
No, they were not amateurs, on the contrary, they were professionals. What I get tired of is seeing colleagues letting slip aircraft from their fingers time and again for no good reasons.
In my humble view there can never be for no good reason.
In this incidence the timings speak volumes. An aircraft in the cruise and in the space of less than two minutes its gone ballistic up to 38,000 feet then mushed its way all the way down into the drink. All because the automatics have decided not to play ball. So the conclusion must be that the two poor chaps up front were imbeciles as they did not know which way to twiddle their sticks. I just don`t buy it.