Perhaps I haven't followed the news closely enough, but wasn't the Ethiopian plane also spewing excess smoke at the time of the crash?
If so, wouldn't that suggest a failure mode other than the one that's viewed as a training issue?
If so, wouldn't that suggest a failure mode other than the one that's viewed as a training issue?
See, eg, " Reliability of Eyewitness Reports to a Major Aviation Accident" https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&co....
A plane crash is a very fast, horrifying tragedy to witness. It shouldn't be surprising that peoples' imperfect memories afterwards are completely scrambled
> almost all the eyewitnesses, including experienced pilots, gave grossly inaccurate accounts when compared to the film record
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-witness...