Looking at the comments, I see...

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@RobT_Cockpit_videos
9 days ago
  @imranbecks it seems that the switch cover was loose and when they tried to close it pressed the switch forward, pushing the pilot onto the flight controls. It may take several months until we see the final report of what really happened. The switch does what you see on the video, move the seat in order to get access to it, when the pilot is seated there is another switch on the side of the seat that has the same function.
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and

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@RobT_Cockpit_videos
6 days ago
  @la-grave it's slow but If the switch was stuck the seat mechanism can't be stopped by hand, so in a few seconds the pilot can be pushed onto the control column. Can't imagine what exactly happened so let's wait what the final report says.
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So I guess it's something like this, or they're covering up for some other fuster cluck that is even worse.

The panels will blow out.

Good luck, we're all counting on you...to realize that it's from "Airplane".

Perhaps it's all part of a plan to gaslight us into accepting AI. When we can't tell the difference between the gibberish that an AI writes and and that of today's "journalists", they will have won.

I agree with you on general principles.

Was the company being threatened by the govt, or did people in the company welcome the govt because they were worried about what was happening?

I checked the Doc out. Interesting work. I do note, that as of 2012,

"Dr. Lindzen accepts the elementary tenets of climate science. He agrees that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, calling people who dispute that point 'nutty.' He agrees that the level of it is rising because of human activity and that this should warm the climate."

No

Because, in the context of this story, today's incompetence and not promoting for merit started decades before the current crop of dog whistles about what's wrong with the company.

It's an attempt at a reverse dog whistle, which may have fallen flat.

I wonder what color that management was?

And that implies that Lieutenant Kernel Intelligence is closer still.

heh. Somebody sez "Theres a reason most climate scientists privately think we're toast as a sepecies." and gets modded up. You provide some pertinent facts and your conclusions based on them, and get modded "troll".

"Theres a reason most climate scientists privately think we're toast as a sepecies."

Then that worries me. I wonder about their logic about one of the most adaptable species the planet has produced.

Now, is our current level of civilization toast? Maybe. All civilizations fall, and climate change has been a contributor to many a fall.

Why does it have to be either/or? Test pilots are heroes too. Most would also volunteer to strap themselves atop two million pounds of fuel. Much better than today's heroes who play with balls or grimace and shake in front of cameras.

Privatized profit, socialized sickness.