Posts by user "AirScotia" [Posts: 49 Total up-votes: 0 Pages: 3]

We're talking as if suicide is the only option. Extreme stress can make us do bizarre things and act in ways that are out of character, without anyone around us being aware we're close to that point of not-coping. Without knowing it ourselves, either.

So why did they give so much space to a discussion of SAIB NM-18-33? It's obvious that the switches were not faulty, or they'd have said. If they couldn't tell if the switches were faulty, they'd have said. They do tell us that the throttle control module was swapped out and there's been no problem with the switches. So they don't need to mention it. It doesn't read to me as a logical part of the preliminary report, but as something they were under pressure to include to imply that there may have been a technical problem rather than pilot malfunction.

If you read the report, you'll see that the throttle was set to full power throughout, and the engines relit when set to RUN.

The. question about enforcing idle throttles before CUTOFF has been discussed voluminously on this thread.

And you wonder why pilots don't come forward when they're feeling mentally not OK?

There's no SOP.

Think how many people throw themselves under a train. For them, it's a solitary death, but they traumatise a driver, plus police and firefighters who have to inspect and remove the mess, and hundreds of shocked people on the train. The important thing is that there should be nobody around to stop them.

The article does suggest that the voices have been identified, and that the FO was panicked by the action, and therefore unlikely to have been the one who cut the switches.

The US does have an interest in keeping blame away from Boeing, and are perhaps frustrated by the vagueness of the preliminary report, which was careful to include mention of an irrelevant Boeing advisory. The 'sources close' is standard for US media, and means they're pretty sure of their ground.

This has been discussed.. If suicide, this is the only part of flight where the FDR will not identify which pilot is responsible. This may matter to the person for life insurance / reputation reasons.

I agree that it may have been a physical health issue causing momentary confusion. Or it may be related to medication. But I think it's hard to dispute that human fingers moved the switches.

No need to use the yoke.

I think there was a fair bit of discussion as to whether the recorders would have anything to record, given the power failure. Even people who fly passenger planes weren't sure.