For those who haven’t read
it, GASCO’s Flight Safety Winter edition describes the following incident worth
noting:
“The aircraft was being
flown to familiarise a prospective new member of the syndicate which owned it.
An existing syndicate member occupied the right seat and the possible new
member occupied the left seat. After a short flight the aircraft landed and
tipped onto its nose and right wingtip.
Neither of the two
occupants consider that they were THE COMMANDER OF
THE AIRCRAFT, and both provided conflicting accounts! ……… “
Here we have two
experienced pilots, not novices, who might have been expected to have observed
the need for designated command in any flight situation, and yet the incident still
occurred. Thoughtlessness before the flight? Or a post-incident desire to avoid
responsibility? Who knows?
What the incident confirms is
that in a multi-crew environment there is a definite and clear need for the
establishment of the command structure to be applied before any aircraft leaves
the parking area!
FLY
SAFE!
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