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.
Paaalease... it’s a great concern. But let’s not forget the job is harder than ever with poorly designed systems, less crew, less training and more frequent fatigue...
It remains to be seen whether the GPWS or ATC prompts the crew to recover. It’s an immensely and responsible difficult job to consistently nail down
Poor buggers