Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 on the Day Before Deadly Crash

Re:Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 on the Day Be... by cjbprime on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:41AM (#19439328)

Thanks, I see. I don't think it does much good to notice that a small percentage of pilots can be capable of figuring it out, if they have no other duties at the time.

That doesn't tell us that it's reasonable to expect pilots in command under stress to always figure it out. And they have to figure it out 100% of the time to avoid statistically unacceptable crashes. So I don't agree that pilot training is an acceptable answer given what we know so far.

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Re:Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 on the Day Be... by cryptonector on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @11:10AM (#19442950)

Yes it does: it shows that there is a procedure that would have worked had the pilots recognized the issue and known about the procedure.

The pilots were stressed in part because they didn't know -- they had plenty of time to recognize the issue and take action had they known, but they didn't, so no amount of time would have helped them. We don't know if one more thing to know about would too much, but I rather doubt that.

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