Originally Posted by
Proximity
I don't understand your infatuation with blaming the First Officer.
Reading the report it sounds like they had their hands full just flying the aircraft. The Captain made repeated requests to the First Officer to help him on the controls. That, along with the cacophony of aural alerts, flashing visual warnings, and the startle factor no doubt influenced their decision making. It looks to me like the First Officer had several key suggestions and there is nothing to show that he was "weak" as internet warriors so frequently like to portray him.
The aircraft is clearly flawed and no amount of blaming the crew will absolve Boeing of that.
Since when is an accident cause by any one thing? Remove one link and accident doesn’t happen. We already know about the MCAS flaw. We don’t know why the crews are not trimming the aircraft. It is not blame. It is a question. The Lion Air crews before the crash flew just fine. The Captain on last Lion Air flight was flying fine. The Lion Air FO quit trimming. The Ethiopian FO was not flying. In that case it was the Capatain that was not being aggressive with the trim. Yes there were a lot of things going on but that is our job. Tune out the distractions and above all fly the aircraft. I had been proven that the aircraft is controllable if you use the trim. Proven by the first 3 Lion are crews and proven repeatedly in the SIM.
What were the causal factors in the Air France 447 crash? Was it just the faulty Pitot tunes? Or were there also crew actions that led to the accident?