Just thought some of you might be interested:

I was quite surprised at the reaction to this accident on a major pilot forum that I frequent. On that forum there are pilots of all skill levels and backgrounds ranging from those who have not yet solo'd, all the way to high time professionals.

Most aviation accidents are discussed regularly as they occur. This one brought responses that I have not read before. Some of the pilots, beginners and old pros alike, wrote about having occasional nightmares about being in such a situation. There were a couple of hundred posts on the thread and I would guess about 10% of the pilots talked about their nightmares.

Why was this accident different in that way? Because there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that the pilot could have done about it. Once it went tail low, that pilot and copilot KNEW that they were doomed and that there was absolutely nothing that they could do to prevent it.

The fact that a pilot could clearly tell this in the video is what made the pilot responses to this accident different to the many others that we have discussed.

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