Posted on 04/08/2016 3:04:30 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior
All Fubai’d up.
I recommend avoiding any airline with the syllable “bye” in its name.
Or maybe all the employees are 'bi'.
It almost has to be one of the pilots very forcefully pushing the nose down. The 737-800 autopilot won’t do such a drastic maneuver.
No mention of the religious affiliations of the flight crew?
The commander was a Cyprus national.
Hard Nose down is an anti-stall maneuver if wings departing flight. Might have been overreaction to stall horn?
The autopilot was off; I’m not a specialist, but it looks like the crew’s error. The Russian authorities has ordered all the Russian pilots flying Boeings to take up a training course simulating the scenario.
As the crew were proceeding with another manual approach, they decided to go around again at a height of 220 meters (4 km before the runway) and initiated climb setting the engine to takeoff thrust. At a height of 900 m there was a simultaneous control column nose down input and stabilizer 5-degree nose down deflection, resulting in abrupt descent with negative vertical acceleration of -1g. The following crew actions to recover did not allow to avoid an impact with the ground. The impact occurred with a speed of over 600 km/h over 50 degrees nose down.
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That doesn’t make any sense. If there was a loss of airspeed, wind shear, stall, or any other problem they would have mentioned it as they did earlier in the article. As it is, it looks like another pilot suicide.
Airspeed seems a little fast to me to be a stall reaction.
And, don't fly in planes piloted by anyone named,
Bim Bam Ow,
Wat Ti Fuq,
Wi Tu Lo,
Sum Ting Wong
You can bet your bottom ruble that Vlad Putin’s boys will release a report blaming Bush,Romney,Trump and the CIA.
The captain's name: Aristos Sokratous
The junior pilot: Alejandro Alava
FlyDubai is an Emirates based low-cost airline, founded in 2009.
Vlad’s boys like Trump. And until recently the plane [a Boeing] has been reported as in order. Several planes landed, ans several diverted to other airports while the FlyDubai was circling around the airfield, waiting for the weather.
At some point the local press speculated the pilots had an argument on what to do.
The crew were probably Christians (a Cyprus greek and a Spaniard), the airline owners - Muslims.
There is no “stall horn” on a B737. Stick shaker to warn of a stall and stick pusher to reduce angle of attack.
Here’s an article mentioning the possibility of an argument:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-crash-idUSKCN0X50W7
*** Unnamed sources have told Russian newspapers that an initial read-out of the plane’s flight recorders had suggested the two pilots argued about the right course of action to take in the minutes before the crash. ***
And they were all smokin’ “doobs”.
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