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Old 1st Aug 2003, 14:31
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jafa
 
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Yeah. Well, anyrate, just going on the evidence so far, we don't have to look too hard at this one to see where the blame should end up. On the desk of UK ATC for one, for requiring crews to do things other than fly the airplane when operating close to the ground at night. And for another, on the desk of whichever committee of neophytes ordered the installation and use of those time and attention consuming idiotic and dangerous zillion decimal VHF tuning heads.

Don't think so? Obvious. Captain flying, head full of the departure. Horizon locks up. Airplane wanders off in roll, as it will. FE calls the bank display error; captain doesn't register; FO, meantime, head down in the VHF set, concentrating on changing the numbers.

Boom.
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