I am an airline captain, and I train airline pilots. You are woefully ignorant.
I think it was upper level icing on the engines, as you know, there have several recent directives about this. A chunk of ice can blow out the engine and send its parts wherever.
Without doubt the great automation and reliability of modern flight control systems has made the sky much safer. In fact the safest it has ever been.
My question is do we have enough training (particularly in foreign airlines) for the crew to recognize when the system has gone bad such as in the Air France crash off Brazil? Also relative to that crash, why did they not go back to just hand flying the craft by attitude via their artificial horizon as opposed to letting the computer fly it into the ocean due to false information generated by instrumentation and feed to the computer control system? It is my assumption that all modern aircraft have backup mechanical gyros that are separate from the glass cockpit that is computer driven.
“I am an airline captain, and I train airline pilots. You are woefully ignorant.”
I know nothing about what happened so I am not speculating on what may or may not have happened.
I would like to hear from you about how the newer technology planes operate and manual procedures by pilots which over ride these systems.
Sorry Capt, but you are wrong. 2 and possibly 3 recent airline disasters prove you wrong.
I, too, have been associated with the airlines, and I am quite proficient in partial panel, and total elect failure flying. NO current pilots of recent minting are proficient in these areas in real life. And, ex- Military pilots rarely understand the civilian air traffic system until they have worked inb it a while.