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Old 23rd Aug 2016, 12:35
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JS, # 1075,
The earlier post expressed a feeling about the subject, this preceded the main point of concern.
Debating the what, where, why, of a feeling would not contribute any more to this discussion, particularly as individual experiences and viewpoints will differ depending on experience and knowledge.
Few pilots are familiar with determining what a crew may have been doing based on an external video of a landing. The video lacks context, the crew's awareness, intent, the actions, system behaviour, auto / manual landing, etc. Most of the comments were about the human, often being supposition and seeking error and blame, and with little thought of an aircraft system error or malfunction.
Much better to start from the position that the pilots were trying to do their best, and then consider if this was sufficient for the situation, then why, and what could contribute to that.

Many debates in this forum consider how something should be done vs what actually happens in operation; flying by the book (SOP) vs actual flying.
Furthermore with the hindsight of this thread the quoted Boeing text appears incomplete - "When the go-around mode is initiated," - the text assumes a particular situation. What happens in specific, rare conditions where GA mode is not initiated even though selected ... Someone has overlooked the point; a hole in the logic or the text, a latent factor, a hole in the Swiss Cheese.
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