Affirmative action can get you killed.
“Aska, who had a record of repeatedly flunking flight tests”
Wait, what?
Well that’s certainly nicer than...
“OH F-——G S—T!!”
Their HR procedures need to be re-evaluated. This is almost criminal ineptitude, at least based on what was in the article.
I’m confused. There were 2 captains onboard and 1st officer. The pilot is trying to fly the plans and everything that the 1st officer was doing was counter to the pilots actions. What was the other captain doing? One would think he would have been trying to at least verbally offer advice to the either the Piot or the 1st officer.
Affirmative action can get you killed.
Reminds me of the PSA flight on approach to San Diego years ago when they collided with small aircraft, possibly a Cessna...One of those in the cockpit as they were nose diving down on a neighborhood...said his last words, which I believe were, “I love you mom”.
What kind of name is Aska? Sounds foreign to me.
Apparently it was Aska who begged for mercy on his soul as quoted, for anyone wondering (and who didn’t want to go to the source to find out ).
How sweet. He was wasting time at the moment he should have been flying the plane. Affirmative action hire who should have never been in that seat, caused the crash.
Tells me he was not thinking about flying the aircraft while he was fighting the captain for control.
Affirmative action kills. He was there for one reason only. His background wasn’t checked because he was African
They didn't do a reference check?
There’s a good report on the accident at Forbes.com.
Aska was an accident waiting to happen. A self-centered con man who managed to slip through the cracks in the screening process.
Atlas is not without blame. They put their need for crew members above good judgment that would have terminated Aska early on.
I’m not going to second guess the Captaincies, but I wonder why he gave the airplane back to Aska when things deteriorating.
Part of flying experience is learning judgement, and being able to identify an error chain.
Looks like a stall to me.
Regardless of the circumstances, I hope and pray, that these are my words... and that He is agreeable.
Brilliant design there. Two people with control of the plane's control surfaces at the same time.
The Captain reached around the throttles to move the flap handle, and activated the TOGA switches by accident. When the aircraft pitched up, the F/O overreacted and pushed the column full forward. The Captain tried to compensate by pulling back on his column. The opposing force was so great that the control columns disconnected. The Boeing 767 has an incredible safety record, and still does, this one was flown into the ground.
Go around was activated:
The crew then began configuring the airplane for the approach and landing, and extended the flaps to 1. About 25 seconds later,the airplane’s FDR recorded fluctuations in the lateral acceleration of the airplane, and about5 seconds after these fluctuations were recorded on the FDR, the go-around mode was also recorded as being engaged, followed immediately by an increase in the thrust of the engines.
https://dms.ntsb.gov/public/63000-63499/63168/631156.pdf
Entire docket here:
I spent a several years of my life investigating air crashes. It is somehow gruesome overall but more so in Africa with absolutely different challenges. Imagine a situation when it is not that easy to get to the site and you should expect that not only phones, tablets and laptops from the victims are gone but also flesh off their bones for dinner and the wreck disassembled for scrap metal and all of it on short order.
“Lord”? Or “Allah”? Big difference!
He got his tops and bottoms mixed up.