That's some major scapegoating of flight crew, when their airline clearly has not maintained the plane properly and caused engine failure in the first place and airport failed to provide adequate ground control support. Easy to be a backsit driver/pilot when you are not flying a damaged plane over the ocean with nobody acknowledging that you have an emergency. Ideally sure, pilot and first office would have done everything by the book and maybe landed at airport safely. But life is never ideal, and I wonder if Transair offered a lot of paid time on simulator to periodically review every likely emergency scenario. Copilot saved captain's life by directing rescue crew to leave him alone in the water and focus on captain first, so I don't think they are horrible human beings.
I don’t think anybody thinks that they are horrible human beings. The article is certainly not implying that in any way about the copilot. The captain clearly has failings, as described by the article, but it is not implied in any way that he is a terrible human being.
> some major scapegoating of flight crew
I disagree. They had a perfectly flyable airplane and crashed it almost killing themselves. That is not good airmanship.
Yes, all of those other things were also factors. I totaly understand that. The point of hearing stories like this is to understand what went wrong and how we can learn from them to not commit the same mistakes. Zero scapegoating.
> That's some major scapegoating of flight crew, when their airline clearly has not maintained the plane properly and caused engine failure in the first place and airport failed to provide adequate ground control support.
Most disasters result from multiple things going wrong together, hence the importance of addressing them individually.
I don’t think the pilots are being scapegoated when they ditched a working plane in the ocean. There were a lot of things that led them there and a lot of reasons it happened, but this crash was avoidable with proper procedures.
