Originally Posted by zero/zero
I do care if it the aircraft could have been saved by declaring a mayday 3 minutes earlier as we can use that knowledge to improve training. Same for the gliding - if the aircraft could have made it, then should we training more for such eventualities in the sim?
Euh, you mean,... You want to be put in the sim in a scenario were you have just a few minutes of fuel left and have to enter the hold and then be told during debriefing that you should have called mayday 3 minutes BEFORE the engines went dead?
Practising an all engine failure glide to land once in a while might be useful (and fun) but if the investigators would recommend more of such training in their final report because of this crash, they would be making fools of themselves.
Talking about this event in a CRM course might be useful. You're not going to need a sim for this one.