Posts by user "aox" [Posts: 13 Total up-votes: 0 Pages: 1]

But as people have already pointed out, it did not need to be very heavy, as that route is rather less than the maximum range.

It said on the TV that people.from.the UK AAIB are going out to help

Doesn't apply to those dates, but COVID means a lot of aircraft have been stored then brought back

Friends observed some operated by a certain UK airline that went to desert storage in America, then came back to be re-registered the same as before.

All the work will have been properly done, and it's unlikely to be of any relevance several years later

Reminder of one phrase quoted in some news reports

Investigators have identified \x93components of interest for further examinations\x94, the report says .

Those results may affect some assumptions being made in this thread

In addition, considering taking early retirement to spend more time with his father does not imply that he the pilot is still having difficulty coping with grief of his mother's death, but quite possibly that the father has been ok so far but may be gradually starting to show small signs of needing a bit more help in future. This isn't a set of circumstances bound to make someone feel life is becoming too difficult. It can as easily and more commonly be showing compassion, consideration for others.

Accusing media reports of deliberately coordinating damage control is a bit far fetched

Even away from this subject we can all of us see news reports that seem to plagiarise each other, then a new angle is thought of, and they rush to copy each other again

Someone speculates on a small point, someone else slightly misreads emphasis, the word reportedly is introduced into later copyist reports, as if there was somewhere beforehand some original authority, and gradually a guess can start to assume the proportions of fact.

Same sort of things trying to happen in this thread, even with plenty of folks here having more knowledge and experience than overall standard of press reports

Not impossible in some sets of circumstances. Someone above mentioned a common mode issue, faulty earth lead affecting twin magnetos.

If a switch body is partly metal and connected internally to one of the contacts, and if the metal panel it is mounted on has a stray intermittent voltage on it due to an issue somewhere else, there may be an unpredictable and difficult to trace effect

I'm not saying this is happening here, and I hope that things are not designed that way, but it isn't completely impossible everywhere in the world.

Well, perhaps it isn't yet viewed as proven, and unless or until more evidence emerges that may or still not establish that, doing something by mistake is usually more likely. Historically in most contexts there are far more mistakes (including non-fatal) than suicides

I wonder if the people who are so adamant that mistaken operation of the wrong control is simply impossible have ever had a windscreen wipe in a car while intending to use an indicator light. And if they have, have some of these occasions happened at higher than average stress moments, such as someone else behaving oddly at a junction.

(Of vehicles with two sets of stalk mounted switches adjacent to the steering wheel, some have lights on the left, and some have lights on the right. This may be, but isn't always, related to whether the home market of the car design drives on the left or the right. British drivers and owners of some Japanese cars may have more experience of both than Europeans only ever driving cars from their home country.)

​​​​The WSJ phrase according to people familiar with U.S. officials\x92 early assessment of evidence uncovered in the crash investigation

... is not necessarily the same as sources close to the investigation, speaking in condition of anonymity

Later in the article is another phrase according to people familiar with the matter, U.S. pilots and safety experts tracking the probe.

That also isn't necessarily people actually within in the investigation. Both phrases, especially the latter, can sound like descriptions of people expressing opinions after they read the report, like all the explanatory videos, or like some of the chat here. Tracking the probe isn't the same as taking part in it.

That says Homendy has been fully briefed.

It does not say the spokesperson who said this also has personal contact with all the same information.

Berman, as a former NTSB official, perfectly fits not only the article's prior description safety experts familiar with the matter, but also me pointing out that reading and interpreting the report isn't the same as taking part in it.

The article says some US officials think there should be criminal investigation. That doesn't necessarily mean there isn't, which may be happening without their knowledge, though there is this to note.

Aviation disasters that may involve potential deliberate actions to crash planes might never fully be resolved, due to incomplete evidence and disagreement over analyses. In some cases, countries taking part in lengthy international accident probes have disagreed with each other\x92s final conclusions.

Plane-crash investigations can often last a year or longer, and new information that comes to light can contradict initial assessments.

Some of us will have driven both, and not only on British and Japanese. British cars seemed to change over in about the 1980s or 90s

Not a good example to choose. Some of us will have seen a TV documentary about this, in which several people talk about misgivings in advance, and some of those were communicated to people within the operating company, as well as someone within a company making a previous documentary telling colleagues he thought they should give up. One test dive was abandoned at only a few meters deep when the end cap fell off. Some people walked out at that point.