I'm not a pilot if that's what your asking.
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Sir, with all due respect, if you are not a pilot and are just going by the "book", here is something you won't find in a book that if you don't do, you will DIE! Fly the aircraft first, navigate second and communicate third, what did he, the capt do, started hollering "mayday" when he should have been thinking about flying the aircraft.
I appreciate your comments, however uninformed they are, we are just having a general, "wonder what happened" discussion and none of us will know until the "boxes" are analyzed.
I was giving a check ride to a ATR applicant one time in a DC-3 and picture this: we were at altitude of 8,000 feet, we were simulating an approach to an airport at 7,000 feet, he has the airspeed nailed down good, heading was excellent, vertical speed right where it was supposed to be, and then I casually shut the fuel down to left engine. As soon as it, the left engine quit due to lack of fuel, we are now down to about 600 feet above the simulated ground and what does he do, starts looking for the paper which has the VMC at our current weight, in case he has to go around!
Needless to say, I failed the applicant, he should have known those figures by heart, and he didn't!!!
And by the way, he was down to 5500 feet before he got everything cleaned up, feathered engine and other items on check list. Since the ground was supposed to be a 7,000 feet, don't you guess he and everyone in back would more than likely be dead?