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Equating initial media speculation not even 3 weeks from the crash when the black box was still at the bottom of the ocean with analysis done after all the data
by avar 9y ago
Equating initial media speculation not even 3 weeks from the crash when the black box was still at the bottom of the ocean with analysis done after all the data was in by industry experts in flight safety is absurd.
- foldr 9y agoMy point regarding the Business Insider article is that lots of pilots and other 'experts' were willing to give quotes to journalists back then, even though they knew nothing really about what had happened. Captain Sullenberger was hired by CBS as an aviation safety expert in 2011. He's expressing an opinion about the sidesticks that many other professional pilots disagree with (see e.g. the endless forum discussions on pprune). You can find pilots who support all kinds of wacky theories of various accidents. Sullenberger has a high profile (deservedly), and can get on TV. The fundamental issues with Sullenberger's claim that the accident would be much less likely in an aircraft with conventional controls are (i) that there have been multiple crashes in such aircraft caused by unrecovered recoverable stalls (e.g. Colgan 3407, Turkish 1951) and (ii) that there is pretty good evidence from the transcript that the PNF was aware of the PFs inputs in any case. This forum post has a good summary: http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=772033&start=50#p11139241 http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=772033&start=...