Yeeb wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 9:16 am Who ejected doesn’t mean anything really, maybe he was controlling it and realised sooner quite how fucked he was. I just mean that as conspiracy theories go, it’s one of the more plausible ones - Holland could have goaded him into trying something risky. If Holland was demoted onto the radio comms then it’s possible he wasn’t actually flying at that point, because if the known danger man was flying then perhaps the other two would have popped their eject buttons also ?
Perhaps they were lulled into security knowing the ‘safer’ pilot was flying , who unfortunately just wasn’t as skilled at stupid envelope stretching manaoivers than Holland. Bud Holland was undoubtedly a stupid risk taking twat, but hadn’t actually pranged a b52 up until then.
It does; unless your suggesting that he had three hands; & was able to have two hands on the stick, & was simultaneously able to pull the eject ?
The convention is that the captain makes the eject call. Its drilled into pilots, so that even in extremes; the pilot in control makes the call.
I don't see how you can consider this a, 'more plausible', theory; when there's precisely zero evidence that it's true; & mountains of evidence to the contrary. Someone, who wasn't flying the aircraft, retracted the gear, & then advanced the trottles. This wasn't the same person that was flying the plane.
It makes complete sense that the person flying the plane decided the course they wanted to take from the missed approach; & all the evidence is that, that was Holland, as it bore all the characteristics of the hot dogging that he'd performed a million times before ... & then he realized he was half way down the runway, & was going to over fly the WSA, which was a red card offence, & with McGeehan in the other seat he knew he was never going to fly again, if he did that, so he continued with the 1st stupid decision, & stalled the plane.
McGeehan was only in the other seat because he was prevented from grounding Holland, so the only action he could take was to say that if anyone from his wing had to 2nd seat with Holland, he would do it. He was 30 days from retirement, & his wife & kids saw the arrogant fuck Holland fly that aircraft into the ground, and his two young sons ran toward the crash screaming; so forgive me if I give this BS short shrift.
