Originally posted by Evan
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Again, nothing indicates that the pilot was NOT consciously doing what very apparently he was consciously doing.
But there are several things in there that I was not aware off and a few of them strongly called my attention (although I agree that they very unlikely will change the conclusions):
- That the investigation and prosecutors concluded that the pilot had been hospitalized due to mental illness and was undergoing depression, when apparently there is no evidence whatsoever of that.
- That the autopilot was simultaneously in 2 modes that are mutually exclusive, and that the pilot cannot select together even if he wants to.
- That there is no evidence that the PIC ever entered the emergency access code, or that the FO rejected the request be flipping the switch to "lock". In particular, the CVR didn't capture the 15-seconds tone that alerts the pilot that somebody outside has entered the emergency code, to give the pilot a chance to reject the request.
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