Originally Posted by
onaswan
Yes. How odd is that? OK so I am not a pilot, but I would suggest that a deliberate 'ditch' would trigger hitting the ditch button - odd that they 'ran out of time'... Again, I would have thought that the 'Push the ditch button' would be quite high on the manual. Any pilots want to shed some light on this one?
They explained that. The "Ditch" button was near the end of the checklist, so they just didn't get a chance to do it. There is probably a reason why it is at the end, so they wouldn't press it just for the sake of it.
Doing a checklist whilst gliding from 10,000 feet is a bit different that from 3200 feet
Cheers,
Rick