Posted on 12/07/2013 4:56:17 AM PST by canuck_conservative
The Russian pilot who sent a Boeing 737 into a near-vertical dive, killing all 50 people on board, might have had a fake licence, investigators said Friday.
Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said his team believes that some pilots working for small regional airlines in Russia have not been properly trained but managed to get fake licences in centres certified by the country’s aviation agency.
Markin said the pilot who sent the Boeing 737 into a dive in the city of Kazan had received his licence from a small training centre that has since been shut down....
Soviet-made airliners typically had crews of four, including a navigator and a flight engineer in addition to two pilots, unlike the more computerized Western planes that long have switched to crews consisting of two pilots.
Russia began to experience a severe shortage of flight personnel in recent years as veteran crew retired and the number of passengers swelled thanks to an oil-driven economic growth.
At the same time, an increasing number of Russian carriers dropped Soviet-made Tupolev and Ilyushin planes, opting for more fuel-efficient yet complicated Boeings and Airbuses.
To help ease the crew shortage, aviation officials set up centres to train navigators and flight engineers to serve as pilots of Western-made planes. Critics said that carriers often sought to cut corners on training in the run for profits.
The Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee, which investigates plane crashes across the former Soviet Union, have concluded that the crew failed to land on their first attempt, brought the plane into a steep climb that caused it to stall, then fatally overcompensated.
The report was based on the data retrieved from the plane’s flight data recorder, which also showed that its engines and other systems were working fine until the plane slammed into the ground....
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Could not find the pilots name. A ROP member, perhaps??
We have a similar situation with a president with a fake birth certicate who’s doing the same with our economy over here
LOL .... good one
They should give that pilot a large fine.
They should fine him to death.
Scariest flight I ever took was with an all-Russian air crew. Former Soviet jet jocks flying cargo in and out of West Africa. I saw them at the hotel bar the night before, all rollicking drunk. They arrived late for the flight the next day at the airstrip. Hung over and bleary eyed, they poured out of a bullet-riddled taxi cab like so many circus clowns. With cigarets dangling from their lips, they staggered around the aircraft for pre-flight inspection, kicking threadbare tires, and pulling vegetation out of the landing gear, picked up as they clipped the tree tops on arrival the day before. As the aircraft rotated out, more “greenery” began uncoiling, and fell away from the ailerons.
If you read the accident reports of a certain type of aircraft, a disproportionate number of the accidents occurred outside CONUS. Enhanced crew training saves lives and has made air travel much safer!
If you read the accident reports of a certain type of aircraft, a disproportionate number of the accidents occurred outside CONUS. Enhanced crew training saves lives and has made air travel much safer!
LOL. I think I would have went to the bus station.
He must have had the fish.
Our crew seemed okay but the most memorable flight I ever made was on a military cargo plane from Lima Peru to Iquitos Peru. Iquitos is Peru’s port on the Atlantic. The Amazon is navigable to that point. So we flew over the Andes and then over the jungle. Full moon. Darkest landscape I had ever experienced. At one point we saw a tiny light in the middle of the blackness and thought of some tribal people down there with their fire. Then we land in Iquitos, a fancy colonial city where the only ways in or out are by boat or plane.
So, let me get this straight.
First, he crashed a 737 into the runway.
Then he killed 50 people.
WHY DIDN'T ANYONE STOP HIM???
Hitting him with a large fine would have been more appropriate than hitting him with a large planet.
LOL!! Great analysis!
Paraphrasing from the movie “Airplane”
Flight Attendant on the PA system addressing the passengers:
“Is there anyone on board that knows how to fly an airplane?”
Panic (and hilarity) ensues.
Someday, I’ll have to watch the movie that “Airplane” was based on.
“Airplane” is a remake of a similar movie from the 1950’s
No kidding.
That is the serious truth.
Pilot crashed 737 into runway, killing 50 people. That would have been so easy to write.
Good one.
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