Re:Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery
by lucasjung on Saturday May 28, 2011 @10:25PM
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>You're not alone though - seems that opinion of internet experts is divided between putting full blame on pilots or putting full blame on sensors.
I actually blame both: if the sensors hadn't broken, the mishap would not have occurred. However, even once the sensors broke, if the pilots had better SA, they still could have prevented the mishap. Even then, I don't blame the pilots so much as the training system that failed to prepare them for this situation, given what I already mentioned about how reliant these aircraft are on their pitot-static systems.
I actually blame both: if the sensors hadn't broken, the mishap would not have occurred. However, even once the sensors broke, if the pilots had better SA, they still could have prevented the mishap. Even then, I don't blame the pilots so much as the training system that failed to prepare them for this situation, given what I already mentioned about how reliant these aircraft are on their pitot-static systems.