Vince Cockeram wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Wesley Bruce"
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If the black box records a catholic pilot during a plane crash saying
"Oh God, oh God, oh God" he's deemed a sad hero.
If a Muslim pilot is recorded saying the same thing he's deemed a
suicidal terrorist. I don't think its fair.
It is perfectly fair Wesley. The Catholic pilot didn't shut the
engines down.
Ref: NTSB Final Report http://www.ntsb.gov/Publictn/2002/aab0201.htm
Vince Cockeram
I knew that but so did the catholic pilot in South America he was
getting the wrong signals from the computer and flew the plane straight
into the ground. It was on the NTSB show on National Geographic. If the
computers doing strange things to you and you can't explain it; what do
you say? October 30, 1999, an EgyptAir captain who had flown the
accident airplane reported that he had experienced difficulties with the
autopilot during a portion of that flight. Sounds like a training glitch
if you read the rest of the paragraph.
If the controls were indicating a reversed response to the relief
steward then he might have thought he had to push instead of pull. The
captain ordered the engines off shortly after saying "get away in the
engines,".
In Australia some of us are very defensive about calmness being seen as
an indicter of guilt we have had several cases where that was
miss-interpreted as callousness and people were punished for simply
being calm. The Chamberlain case was on such case.
Without additional information I don't think you can be conclusive.
Unfortunately that would require another accident where the relevant
controls failed. I was really thinking about the media response not the
NTSB.
