I didn't see it but my husband insisted on telling me all about it at length while we were in the air on our way out to Portugal the other day!

I watched it Fiona it was on 4seven here. It was really interesting. Thank goodness they found the black box after 2 years of searching for it.

A good piece of telly journalism for a change, un-sensasionalised straight forward telling of the facts as they are known, nothing to raise any serious doubts about flying [driving the M25 each day is more dangerous]

I think it was all the more scarey because it wasn't dramatised. We only followed the flight crew conversation, which was horrible as we knew that they were about to die.

If that stick which lifts the nose up had been on the left of the seat instead of being on the right & out of sight of the other pilots there may have been a different outcome IMO.

You are absolutely right glynis

I remember watching old films of pilots flying and they used to pull the steering control thingy towards them to go up and away from them to go down, at least the co pilot could see what they were doing.

the joystick these days is not a big wheely thing, but a small joystick [similar to those used for computer games] and is situated to the right of the pilots seat and the left of the co-pilots seat [outboard], so with a pilot in the seat and everything else going on its unlikely the co-pilot would notice, the captain was in the jump seat central and to the rear of the pilots so he certainly could not have seen

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/fatal-flight-447-chaos-in-the-cockpit/4od