How one confused pilot killed over 200 people..

[Steve1968LS2]

Originally Posted by James OLC

As a guy whos been flying something around 10,000 miles a month lately it scares the heck out me that in addition to the mechanical complications of flight I'm still ultimately at the mercy of guys like this.

And for what it's worth, while the copilot ultimately crashed the plane through his incompetence, there were two other huge human errors that ultimately brought the plane down - not looking at the weather they were heading in to (and having the radar set wrong) and the captain heading for a nap as he plane entered a bad storm, leaving the most jr pilot in command,

Actually the second most senior pilot let the low guy keep command when the Captain left..

I like how Boeing ties the controls together.. this "averaging" deal seems flawed.