killbilly
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My girl was relating to me a story she saw on the weather channel about the Air Florida 90 crash in the Potomac back in '82 - I remembered the news stories from when I was a kid, but only vaguely.
I read the Wikipedia account of the crash, which was interesting, and we were talking about it tonight.
Then she asked me a question that I couldn't really answer. "So...if you're the first officer, and you're really questioning what the Captain's doing [sic], what can you do? Do you just take the controls and fight him or what?"
I really didn't have an answer, because I don't know. In the case of that crash, it seemed like (based on the CVR transcript) he questioned what he was seeing but wasn't completely confident.
I know some of you guys were around and flying then, and even more of you have studied the crash in a professional capacity. So...what's the deal for the FO when he smells a potentially life threatening situation?
Or maybe I'm asking the wrong question, and the greater question at large, in an According-to-Hoyle CRM moment, is what recourse does an FO have in a split-second situation like that?
Thanks. We're both curious about the answers.
I read the Wikipedia account of the crash, which was interesting, and we were talking about it tonight.
Then she asked me a question that I couldn't really answer. "So...if you're the first officer, and you're really questioning what the Captain's doing [sic], what can you do? Do you just take the controls and fight him or what?"
I really didn't have an answer, because I don't know. In the case of that crash, it seemed like (based on the CVR transcript) he questioned what he was seeing but wasn't completely confident.
I know some of you guys were around and flying then, and even more of you have studied the crash in a professional capacity. So...what's the deal for the FO when he smells a potentially life threatening situation?
Or maybe I'm asking the wrong question, and the greater question at large, in an According-to-Hoyle CRM moment, is what recourse does an FO have in a split-second situation like that?
Thanks. We're both curious about the answers.