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Subject: Re: Co-pilot error caused AA 587 crash Posted on: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:27:27 +1000



AbsolutelyCertain wrote:

> "Sylvia Else" wrote in message
> news:4182181d$0$25053$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
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>>I wrote:
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>>>It's probably not just a problem in aviation. There are things that seem
>>>so blindingly obvious to engineers that it's difficult for them to
>>>conceive the notion that a non-engineer might not recognise the truth.
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>>Alaska Airlines Flight 261 might be an example. You have a flight
>>control system element that's jammed for no apparent reason.
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>>Therefore you have no idea what it might do if you mess with it, so if
>>you can land with it in its current state, then leave the damned thing
>>alone, and land.
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>>Sheesh!
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> Do tell us more. You appear to be breaking new ground in aeronautical
> science here ........... Well, breaking wind, anyway.

It seems to have been obvious the NTSB too. Just not to the crew.

>
> Say, do you know anything about osteopathy? I have this spastic colon
> lately (mostly, after reading your posts .....)

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