Airbus changed the checklist after the Azores glider. Hm. Lots of hate in
aviation for Dick Piche despite the fact that he was given a broken airplane
which pumped fuel overboard. No one ever mentions that maintenance fuckup.
People in aviation become enraged and feel betrayed, when their religion
lets them down. You're simply
never supposed to lose all your engines in
a large aircraft. When it does, it's a historical event (eg Al Haynes). That
anger can be re-directed to unsurprising places.
Remember the guy who lost both engines at LHR because of the design
problem of the Boeing fuel de-icers? He was blued, screwed and tatooed by
the airline. He didn't follow the checklist, and in the spur of the moment raised
the flaps from 35 to 25 which people months later figured out, stopped him from
landing short into some bad stuff. That poor guy did everything
perfectly, but both
engines failed, so they fucked him really bad. Had to have a scapegoat.
I'm pretty sure the NTSB was not happy with Scully. I am certain that in the
accident report, I read that they shit on him for incomplete/incorrect
checklist completion, before his water landing. He was flying the airplane
instead of doing the stupid fucking paperwork, unlike T4810. Bad Sully.
They fucked Pearson pretty bad too, for the Gimli Glider. Yeah, I know he's
not perfect like a 21st century Canadian pilot, but he did the best he could.
Probably better than I could have. Pearson was again handed a broken
fucking airplane - no fucking fuel gauges, you believe that? - and was then
told to additionally implement Trudeau's metric system, but no one ever
remembers that maintenance fuckup, either, compounded by stupid fucking
politics.
Bureaucrats will tell you that their paperwork is more important than flying
the airplane, but evidence would suggest otherwise. Look at that decaying
airspeed and altitude on the T4810 ADS-B data.
EDIT
I'm spotting a pattern here. Dick Piche - hated. Captain Pearson - hated.
LHR Boeing guy - hated.
Al Haynes - adored. Sully - hero (despite not following the checklist).
Why do you Canadians hate so much? Is it some British class thing? When
someone does something well, do they threaten the order of society?
This is a rhetorical question. And an interesting one, IMHO.
Remember the JTF guy that took the long shot a few years back? He was
hated in Canada. If he was an American, they would have given him a medal
and made a movie out of life story.
Lots of evidence of hate and envy in Canada, isn't there? Why all the hate and envy?
Wasn't there an old guy who took out some Parliament building shooter? I couldn't
believe all the hate and envy spewed at him afterwards.
This is kind of pathological, guys. There is something really toxic there.
EDIT #2
My old friend Fern Villeneuve vs Bob Hoover. Both awesome sticks. But the American
is a hero, and no one's ever heard of Fern, despite him being one of only two living people
on Canadian coins, the other being the Queen of England. He was a big deal, and completely
unknown. Ok, Fern died a while back in a winter traffic accident - NOT in an airplane - but that
doesn't change the studied lack of recognition of the Canadian. AGAIN.
I guess this is a coincidence, occurring over and over and over again, decade after
decade after decade?
Edit #3
Canada had lots of hate for my old pal Don Cameron. If he was an American, he would
have been a hero. But Canada went out of it's way to shit on Don.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797
You've never heard of Don, which I think proves my theory.