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I don't think the captain was that incompetent; I was surprised after reading the article , how there was little in it to support the veiled attacks on the capt
by prmph 3y ago
I don't think the captain was that incompetent; I was surprised after reading the article , how there was little in it to support the veiled attacks on the captain it started off with.
> I know many cases of incompetence in GA, but never in commercial aviation
You mean you have never heard of commercial aviation pilots making mistakes? This can't be right.
- AdrianB1 3y agoNTSB conclusion released a few days ago practically calls the crew incompetent (with nice words: "crew's ineffective crew resource management, high workload and stress").
- AdrianB1 3y agoI heard about commercial pilots making mistakes, but not to be plain incompetent. Reading the article, even the transcription of the radio conversation is one example - I don't need the author of the article explain what is wrong there, I know it myself (2 weeks ago I had to renew my radio operator license, so I just had the refresher course). I don't even have too high standards for pilots, it is a basic expectations the airlines to hire and maintain competent pilots that will not crash planes on their first incident. This is because most of the plane accidents I know personally are either pilot error or technical problems that could be avoided or mitigated by any decent pilot.
- prmph 3y agoI'm not sure what your point is here. The pilots of Air France 447 crashed a perfectly flyable plane into the ocean because they failed to apply one of the most basic principles of flight: raising the nose can cause a stall as the aircraft loses speed, whereas bringing down the nose allows you to pick up speed and pull out of a stall. One pilot kept pulling back on the yoke for several minutes until they crashed. Would you say they just made mistakes, or were just plain incompetent?