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Re:Details emerge of Air France B777 landing incident by hindsightbias on Thursday April 28, 2022 @11:49PM (#31201189)
The transcripts of AF447 include the pilot telling the right seater to stop. More than once. But he keeps doing inputs.

Airbus 320 pilot told me there is a light that comes on when inputs dont match.

Now reread the transcripts with the assumption that the right seater might not have the best intentions.

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Re:Details emerge of Air France B777 landing incident by cm2187 on Friday April 29, 2022 @03:01AM (#31202209)
What do you mean by best intentions? There are more efficient ways to crash a plane.

But also isn't the right seater the first officier, surely he should obey a repeated direct order from the captain.

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Re:Details emerge of Air France B777 landing incident by jonsen on Friday April 29, 2022 @03:58AM (#31202566)
The captain was asleep. Maybe there were no clear consensus on chain of command in the cockpit.
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Re:Details emerge of Air France B777 landing incident by rmk on Friday April 29, 2022 @11:47AM (#31206656)
By convention the left seater is the captain. In the case of AF447, the captain was asleep, and the FO and a relief pilot were flying the plane.
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