The fact that the airliner was flying through a thunderstorm and the pilot asked permission to fly higher, puts this accident in a different category.
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There’s a reason that frequent travelers prefer American over
Asian airlines, and it’s not the crappy cabin service we provide them. It’s the training the pilots receive, and our resultant safety record.
In the recent Asiana crash at SFO, the rest of the crew sat there like tree stumps as the captain slammed it in. Until proven otherwise, I’ll stick with the assumption that there wasn’t much crew interaction going on in that cockpit.
Correct.
I suspect it was a good airplane flying with a piece of sh-t computer driven system, with a pilot that did not recognize what the hell was going on. Sh-t happens real quick in a near vertical dive. When you exceed the limits of the airframe, it is over.
This is not criticism of the pilot. I suspect the plane and not the pilot killed them.