The crew and passengers of FlyDubai 981 left for a better place recently and may they rest in peace.
Yet already, the nasty yet familiar suspicion of fatigue is rearing its end.
At the time what already seems like a botched G/A happened, the crew had been up at task 5 or 6 hours and were operating in the middle of their WOCL.
Voices are raising already, citing the slavish-style rostering FlyDubai imposes on its pilots:
https://www.rt.com/news/336514-flydu...fatigue-crash/
The former pilot cited an internal survey that asked “Do you think there’s going to be a crash?”
“Over 80% of the pilots that participated … said yes, there will be a crash at Flydubai. And it’s unbelievable, I mean they knew this was coming, they absolutely knew it and of course they will blame it on the pilots.”
F/O had worked 11 days prior to that flight, with only 1 day off.
No doubt when the final report comes out citing 'fatigue' as a factor to the accident, the airline will happily belch out the famous words:
"It was legal".
Where have I heard that before?
And we thought 'working to death' was a figure of speech.