Reply to post: Re: A tablet in a cockpit is a recipe for disaster.

Tablet computer zoom error saw plane fly 13 hours with 46cm hole

Bronek Kozicki

Re: A tablet in a cockpit is a recipe for disaster.

it was 'kin lucky to have left the damn airport at all to get there

Yes they were lucky not to have crashed aircraft on take off, but having left the airport with damaged aircraft skin, they were even more lucky that the difference of barometric pressure had not caused breach and explosive decompression on the cruising altitude.

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