Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Sylvia Else wrote in
u:



I wrote:


It's probably not just a problem in aviation. There are things that
seem so blindingly obvious to engineers that it's difficult for them
to conceive the notion that a non-engineer might not recognise the
truth.

Alaska Airlines Flight 261 might be an example. You have a flight
control system element that's jammed for no apparent reason.

Therefore you have no idea what it might do if you mess with it, so if
you can land with it in its current state, then leave the damned thing
alone, and land.



What a fjukwit


Please note that Berties disagrees here. He wants the right to meddle.
Perhaps he wants to join those ace Alaska Airlines pilots, wherever they
are now.

Sylvia.