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Join Date: Apr 2002
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What surprises me on this thread is the amount of energy being spent on understanding the gust lock system - compared to the amount of energy spent on understanding and working out a solution to habitual non-compliance...
Others are entitled to their opinion, but in my mind, it was not GLs design of the gust-lock system (inelegant and inefficient as it may be) that killed them boys. Them boys were killed by crew that lost respect for what they were doing. We all do mistakes - but this was no mistake. This wasn't 'pilot error'.
Sure - if the QAR had shown that they always carried out their flight control checks, apart from on that fatal day, then it would be pilot error and a 'there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I' from the rest of us.
But that wasn't the case.
I'll get my coat...