Yes, it was a good thing he wasn't in a full EMB-175. But can you imagine the congressional investigations and hearings that would have been held had this been a passenger airplane with dozens or hundreds of fatalities. Unfortunately congress, the media, and the American public don't really care that much about this accident because it was just a cargo airplane with 3 people on board. The public scrutiny over this would have been absolutely crazy had it been a passenger plane.

A full E-175? We're fortunate that it wasn't a full pax 767 with 250 U.S. service members on board. Atlas does pax ops as well, and it's the same pilots rotating between cargo and pax flights. The only thing that kept this from being a fully loaded passenger 767 was blind, dumb luck.

yeah, flying is a meritocracy. Alrighty then.

The big elephant in the room is Amazon. They no doubt put pressure on Atlas’s management and drove them to hire anybody who could fill the seats. I am so surprised that the NTSB didn’t find any corporate fault here.

Yes the Captain is at fault but the First Officer panicked and put that plane in an unrecoverable situation very quickly.

It is a sad situation for everyone involved. Worse, the NTSB is banging hard about why they need cameras in the cockpits. I’m sorry but my family and friends as well as strangers will never see my demise via a camera in the cockpit. It will be INOP or obscured.

Agreed. I'm not opposed to video in the cockpit, but there were some pretty egregious leaks of CVR data, especially before about 2000.

We let a lot go unanswered here. Disgraceful.

You ever meet someone who thinks they know a lot, but in reality is an embarrassment to themselves. That’s this guy. This is coming from someone who falsely accused a crew of “almost crashing a jet” in TPE. Anything he says is nothing but stupidity.

The racists don’t even realize they are racist, and would be offended if you called them what they are.

No, I’ll grant you that it is not...

But we can both agree that it should be, right?

I was surprised at the NTSB push for cameras again. Realistically, what's the value other than making their job a tiny bit easier? They have the FDR and from that can create the animation they did showing control movement, throttles, etc. Did they reach an accurate conclusion? Yes.
They seem to do a pretty good job finding the cause, lessons, recommendations, etc. with the tools they currently have.
What would have changed in the course of this investigation had there been a camera recording the action?
Not much from what I can see.

How do you know they reached an accurate conclusion? Were you there during the crash?

A camera can show who did what rather than just "something was done"