Originally Posted by
PUCCI GALORE
The Buffalo incident was indeed a cargo door blowing out and the passenger floor collapsing and partly severing the controls that ran through the floor. A similar incident occurred a year later over Ermenonville in France to a THY aircraft. All were lost in the accident that occurred. Our pilots who trained at Long Beach told us that the Douglas (as it was then) trainers had had the THY pilots in for training and told us that not one of them would ever have been accredited to fly the type on any US airline.
I don't assume to know your intentions in stating this here: but it does come across as if you're making the statement that pilot skill might have been a contributing factor to the AA aircraft being saved, and the TK aircraft not.
If so, that would be completely misleading, as pilot skill had nothing to do with the latter crash: you could've placed Al Hayes and Sully together in that aircraft, and there would've been nil they could've done to save it, as control to (or even influence on) EVERY flight surface was lost by both yokes.