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Posted on 05/15/2012 8:06:10 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
As search-and-rescue (SAR) teams continue to airlift the bodies of passengers of the ill-fated Sukhoi Superjet 100 from Mt. Salak, West Java, on Sunday, more clues have been found indicating that its pilot pushed the aircraft to show its capacity to potential buyers.
Confirming Russian Vice President Dmitry Rogozin’s statement that human error may have been to blame for the crash, an official with the Indonesia National Air Carrier Association (INACA) who was on the first demonstration flight of the Superjet on Wednesday morning said that the pilot performed extreme maneuvers to test the capability of the aircraft.
INACA secretary-general Tengku Burhanuddin said that the pilot intentionally took the aircraft through clouds several times during the flight, causing turbulence.
“They wanted to prove how good the Superjet 100 was. That is what people do when they look for potential customers.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thejakartapost.com ...
Of course they want to blame it on the pilot. Couldn’t possibly be the fault of the vaunted Rusky engineering and manufacturing.
So, what’s Russian for:
“Hey, watch this!”
In fairness at first I thought the same but one of the Indonesians on board the first flight, an airline official, said the plane handled superbly and there’s no getting away from the fact that immediately before the crash the pilot asked permission to drop to 6,000 feet in a mountainous area, the next thing we know is that the plane is found slapped into the side of a mountain, a mountain 7,000 feet high.
Hard to escape the obvious conclusion.
And the Rusky pilots are just as sloppy as Russian engineers.
As a former AF pilot, I can absolutely tell you that they don’t call it “Min Safe Altitude” for grins and giggles.
This pilot got careless and stupid.....and killed himself and a bunch of people in the process. No excuse.
Well for a redneck its “Hey, hold my beer'...
So I guess for a Russian its “Hey, hold my vodka"
Totally believable either way. From what I’ve heard about Russian pilots and about Russian engineering, the cause could have been either or both.
(But it was a mountain.)
He flew into the old cumulo-granite.
Reminds me of the Tu-144 (Russia’s super sonic transport) during the Paris Airshow back in the 70’s. The pilot pushed it a bit too hard and it snapped in two.
Live Pilot Rule #43: Never try to fly through Cumulo-granite clouds.
Shelties are great dogs!
Ypu beat me by a minute.
We must both be old farts to remember that one.
A sign posted under the glass where you took your FAA written in Tampa:
“A Midair Collision Can Ruin Your Entire Afternoon.”
P.S. Love the picture of the fox on the plane in the water. Is that the old drug smugler’s a/c wreck off the West End of Grand Bahama Island?
Did the Ruski pilot try to roll the aircraft like the guy who rolled the Boeing 707 decades ago?
Deja vu: 100 years ago some schmucks did the same thing with a new ocean liner - the Titanic.
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