Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Crews that are fatigued make more mistakes every time. Every accident is a chain of mistakes. It only takes catching one of the mistakes to break the chain and prevent the accident. My worst performances have always been when very tired. One eye opener is serving as a relief pilot international. You get a gods eye view and see all the mistakes. The rest the crew has received is directly proportional to the mistakes made. Just one of them catching the airspeed reduction would have saved the day.
But is raising the flaps before the stall recovery is accomplished a product of fatigue or is it a lack of training/understanding about what a stall is and the role flaps have in keeping an airplane airborne?