Originally Posted by
glofish
.... and let's not forget to tell our passengers why two highly trained pilots needed two calls from the controllers and an automatic warning not to drive their highly sophisticated flying marvel into the ground with 10 miles visibility and the cloud ceiling at 35 hundred feet!
Feel free to call me whatever comes to your mind, but i really have a hard time to explain this to my non aviation indoctrinated friends and family. Unfortunately even more so when they ask me what the company is doing to avoid such incidents in the future. They wouldn't be able to believe .....
It's a very, very sad state we are in.
Yep, I was asked same questions by family members and friends. Besides "fatigue" and "unusual approach" words have failed me