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I usually enjoy HN discussions, but this is a pitiful and sad thread. I couldn't be bothered trawling past the responses to the top comment with back seat drive
by teh_klev 8y ago
I usually enjoy HN discussions, but this is a pitiful and sad thread. I couldn't be bothered trawling past the responses to the top comment with back seat drivers, and "ooh but I read the 737's flight manual, they fucked up".
Likely 99% of the commentariate here are neither 737 Max pilots, let alone even licensed to fly commercial passenger jets, or even have a pilots license. And no, as much as I love the guy, watching Mentour Pilot does not make you an expert. They have fuck all knowledge about, or even experience, about the sudden cockpit workload that was imposed on these pilots until the point of hull loss. Have some respect. Oh, and you know what, this was Ethiopia's national carrier, I expect these flyers were at the top of their profession and as good a pilot as any other national carrier,
- bronco21016 8y agoCan’t upvote enough. As someone who actually does fly airplanes for a living it’s disturbing to me the amount of ‘expert’ arm chair quarterbacks that have come out on HN in the wake of these two incidents. Immediately after the Ethiopian crash there were 200+ comment threads every few hours full of experts speculating about all the things that went wrong. People who were flat out wrong could not be told otherwise. I had to stop even engaging.
- teh_klev 8y agoThanks for the supportive comment. I thought I was going to get a polite but firm message from dang asking me not to drink-and-hackernews :)