that is a serious point. some say that they first tried to same the plane "aviate-navigate-communicate", but some remind in case of fire the directive is communicate first then work on the fire. som answer to that saying the pilot was young (<2000h flight)
did they have radio contact ? it seems they were out of any control area ? but were they connected by radio anyway ? anyway one symptom, as trecker, as skydiver, as climber, as cyclist, as accidented guy, is that when facing huge incident, you lost half your brain... normally if you are well trained you apply procedures, but else you mostly apply known procedures that don't apply on your problem, and you forget simple solutions... being two does not surely helps much... not everybody can land a plane of Hudson River and stay calm. the "simple hypothesis" is not perfect, but others are not better for sure. It remind me something about cold fusion theory. 2014-03-19 18:41 GMT+01:00 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>: > ChemE Stewart <cheme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would believe a pilot before a liberal arts magazine writer. >> > > I cannot judge, but it seems extremely unlikely to me that the pilot or > copilot would not contact air traffic control and declare an emergency in > the event of a fire. That only takes a moment. They would have known that > if they had to land in the ocean, dozens of rescue teams would be > dispatched, and that would be their only hope of survival. > > - Jed > >
