Earlier quoted context omitted.
> More to the point, this reflects positively on Lion Air because it means that the pilots in the forward facing seats properly took advice into account. This is good crew resource management. It's good the pilots took advice -- but they should not have needed that advice because they should have been trained to operate the system properly. The whole thing reflects very poorly overall: - The pilots were not trained p…
The pilots were not trained properly on the new system It's hard to train for something that doesn't exist according to Boeing The plane was allowed to fly again the next day despite the malfunction The plane was serviced between flights, and assuming that Lion Air actually did what they claimed, Lion Air maintenance followed the Boeing instructions by the book. The incident was not reported properly at the time The…
From the article:
> The so-called dead-head pilot on the earlier flight from Bali to Jakarta told the crew to cut power to the motor driving the nose down, according to the people familiar, part of a checklist that all pilots are required to memorize.
Clearly only one of the pilots memorized the checklist, but they were all required to do so. Presumably the pilots who crashed the plane the next day didn't memorize it either.