Originally Posted by
badflaps
I'm just lost on why the skipper wouldn't be on the flight deck when entering 50,000+ft. C/B's. Starts there, gets worse. Bringing the chick along didn't help.
The story of the women s unsubstantiated at best....
The decision is very standard. With weather generally in the region all the time, when would YOU have rested? Perhaps you'd have waited until only an hour was left before top of descent? Nothing looked unusual and, actually, very few pilots would have had the background in meteorology or weather radar to know that it was an issue at all.