Thanks to the mhandley for posting this. I have now read a bunch of these posts (on 'admiralcloudberg') and they are absolutely fascinating. The ones I find

Thanks to the mhandley for posting this. I have now read a bunch of these posts (on 'admiralcloudberg') and they are absolutely fascinating. The ones I find most interesting are those where I remember the media coverage at the time. So often, the post has fascinating details which emerged later. For example: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/days-of-our-discontent-the-crash-of-american-airlines-flight-587-9913f66814e8 https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/days-of-our-discontent-t... I remember this crash of a Jamaica-bound plane after 9/11, and I remember the press reporting initially that the tail had been repaired at the factory, and then a few months later that the NTSB had issued a directive that pilots shouldn't respond to wake turbulence too aggressively. However, the cloudberg post has fascinating details about how the particular characteristics of a training scenario for the A300 had led many pilots to conclude that the proper response to wake turbulence was massive inputs to the controls. It would have been easy to conclude the pilot who made them was just incompetent. But in fact, evidence was he was very competent, and that he had learned what the training taught him quite well. The trainers did not understand what the implementation of their simulation was teaching until after the accident was investigated. Also, the industry did not fully understand what tests for structural integrity of the tail really said about its capacity to withstand inputs at lower speeds until after this crash. The details are just fascinating. Or this one: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/lost-souls-of-grammatiko-the-crash-of-helios-airways-flight-522-ccf333b407a https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/lost-souls-of-grammatiko... About a plane where everyone is unconscious and it circles until it runs out of gas. I remember the coverage at the time, which presented it as a mystery. It turns out it wasn't such a mystery, the compression system on the plane was left in an incorrect state by maintenance, and the pilots repeatedly failed to recognize it. The details behind those short statements are fascinating. Anyway, thanks for posting this.