Originally Posted by
oldmako
Just to clear this up, they didn't do a "safe air return". They dove into an emergency ONLY and crappy facility in South American mountains in the middle of the night. I can't recall if it was Manaus, or somewhere else. The plane was then stuck there.
Just to clear up my point, its sounds like they did arrive at the emergency ONLY crappy facility in South American mountains in the middle of the night, "Safely". (Unless I missed something in your story?) Did Captain Marvin add risk to his flight by accepting an A/C with MEL'd APU? Yes. But, why are you the one that should be the judge of what another Captain should accept as a level of risk they are comfortable with? In one breath you don't want the company or another Captain to judge you for what you are comfortable with yet in another breath you are condemning another Captain for exercising his own judgement of risk. A little hypocritical, wouldn't you say?
