That's an eternal problem, Andrew. It's easy enough to allocate jobs
among the team for circumstances that you have trained for, but it is
extremely difficult to train for this sort of eventuality, I reckon.
I look forward to hearing or reading the transcript. It might well
become a required lesson in CRM (Crew Resource Management) training.
The perfect angle for the landing was the most tricky part. Too low
an angle and the rate of descent would have been too high (for a given
speed); too high and he might, I suspect, have broken the aircraft and
lost people.
Chris
On 7 Feb 2009, at 10:41, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Good grief - what's the co-pilot doing? :-)
> The cockpit transcript is now published so we have an idea of what
> was offered and rejected.
> He also had to miss a bridge by not much and from that little bit of
> film I saw, he managed the perfect tail-dragging angle for ditching
> as a opposed to a wheels-up landing.
>
> I tend to think that 'bravery' should be used to describe a situation
> where one has a choice.
> In this situation it's more a case of quite admirable professionalism
> and skill.
> Even the passengers behaved very well indeed.
> Andrew Fildes
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