Posts by user "ferry pilot" [Posts: 5 Total up-votes: 2 Page: 1 of 1]¶

At the one brief instant in an entire flight where there is no possibility of recovery both engines fail.

“ If you want to know how something works, see how it breaks”
This forum is proof of that.
Somewhere in all the foregoing posts is the answer the recorders will undoubtedly verify and we will finally know what broke.
The human or the machine.

Despite the considerable expertise behind all the posted speculation of malfunction or incompetence it appears a valid argument could still be made that a perfectly serviceable airplane with a qualified and competent crew made a normal takeoff with no deviation from standard procedures until an as yet unidentified problem caused instant loss of thrust on both engines.

It has been a week, and the recorders were recovered within two days. Contamination would have been found and almost certainly made public by now. A government statement yesterday asked people not to speculate on sensitive matters and whatever it was appears to need more time and deeper investigation. I am old and patient, so I have no problem with shut up and wait.

Suicide is often impulsive. A sudden, unplanned leap from a balcony, bridge or precipice is a single motion with almost guaranteed terminal result. Unfortunately an airplane in the hands of a depressed or mentally unstable pilot can also be a single, impulsive motion away from instant, painless death. As demonstrated, a couple of flicked switches and a very short wait.

Unlike previous pilot suicides that took deliberation and often aggressive action, this appears to be a passive event that could have been conceived and executed in the same impulsive instant. Followed almost immediately by regret, denial and even a futile attempt at reversal.