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You could say the same about everything - AF447 would still be here if Bonin, the co-pilot, would not have pulled the stick while the plane clearly stalled, bec
by ddalex 9y ago
You could say the same about everything - AF447 would still be here if Bonin, the co-pilot, would not have pulled the stick while the plane clearly stalled, because he wanted the plane to 'go up'.
- sitkack 9y agoThere were lots of other confounding factors, the other two crew members didn't have good enough instrumentation to get the plane out of stall either. The Apollo Guidance Computer really showed me the value of best effort and gradual failure. Too many things hard fail. HCI kills.
- sitkack 9y agoSpeaking of HCI killing, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/03/24/friendly-fire-deaths-traced-to-dead-battery/7ba7f3f3-a219-4e15-9936-0473f03c48e8/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/03/24/f... > Nonetheless, the official said the incident > shows that the Air Force and Army have a serious > training problem that needs to be corrected. "We > need to know how our equipment works; when the > battery is changed, it defaults to his own > location," the official said. "We've got to make > sure our people understand this." The solution is almost never, "be more careful."