Posted on 09/29/2011 12:12:38 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
(AP) TOKYO - A Japanese airline says one of its jets nose-dived and rolled almost upside down earlier this month because the co-pilot hit the wrong controls while trying to open the cockpit door so the captain could return from a restroom break.
Two flight attendants were slightly hurt and four passengers got airsick when the All Nippon Airways Boeing 737-700 with 117 people aboard descended sharply, veered off course and went belly up over the Pacific on its way from southern Japan to Tokyo on Sept 6.
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I'm betting that after they regained control - a LOT of people needed a restroom break.
Too Late.
Must be that same button Ted Stryker kept hitting in the movie “Airplane!”
The rest needed a change of undies.
That is one 737 that will get a real physical before flying with passengers again.
Bonzai!!!!!!
Gosh! Sounds like fun!
Coulda happened to anyone.
“Mistakenly hit the rudder controls instead of the door lock” - well, hasn’t that happened to all of us? I guess I need to start teaching at pilot school.
“This is the rudder control, and this is the door lock. Bob, where is the door lock? No, you stupid sh_t.....that’s the rudder control. Come up to the front of the class so I can hit you in the head with this dead salmon.”
There’s not enough Xanax in the world that would have helped me survive such an event.
They should move the “unlock for pilot” switch away from the “unlock auto pilot” switch if you ask me.
(Hmm - or maybe get the guy’s hearing checked? Radio guy yells out “Unlock for the pilot!”)
“Well, it sure LOOKED like the door handle!
They are all lucky to be alive. A little over engineering saved them.
There was an airliner plane that was not so lucky over Central America a few years back. Disorientation, the plane started breaking up because it was flying not that much outside design parameters. Complete loss.
Why are we just hearing about this?
Arthur: “What happens if I press this button?”
Ford: “I wouldn’t!”
Console: BING!
Ford: “What happened?”
Arthur: “A sign lit up saying ‘please do not press this button again’.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3emUZ64OeY&NR=1
Actual footage from inside the airplane! (Actually a scene from my favorite Christmas movie where Opus the penguin can’t find the starboard alituder.)
I’d love to hear the flight recorder on this one, even if it’s in Japanese, should be a hoot.
They’re aren’t enough cigarettes or whiskey on the entire planet that would calm me down after something like that. Thank God they pulled it out.
Cockpit error....yeah, that’s an understatement.
the animation of the roll is sick. It’s amazing the bird held together
That would be ex-co-pilot.
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