(June 25, 2017 at 6:57 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: You might be a little more sympathetic to this Malaysian pilot's appeal to the supernatural rather than human skill, design and maintenance, if you had known that another plane operated by this same budget airline AirAsia finally crashed last year, killing all aboard, after having flown passenger services for over a year, including along the same route as the flight that is the subject of this thread, with a broken rudder that the maintenance knew but didn't fix or tell the pilots, which technically made the plane unairworthy.
More sympathetic? Why? While a known issue with the rudder travel limiter was a contributing factor in the previous accident, it wasn't the cause. The cause was a pilot that wasn't giving clear instructions and a copilot who apparently was lacking in basic airmanship skills. But that was an unusual failure compounded by inept humans which is something that is extremely difficult to predict or train for.
In this incident, one of the engines took a shit. That is a scenario that the aircraft is designed to deal with successfully. There are well established very bullet proof procedures for it and air line crews train on those procedures several times a year. Once the situation was identified and the procedures carried out, making an airport should have never been in doubt. The fact that this ass clown told the pax to pray is insane. You need the pax to stay as calm as possible. Telling them to pray after an engine failure is nothing short of grossly irresponsible. He doesn't need sympathy, he needs to be fired.
