POS “AirBus” Broke.
what a horrifying transcript
Must be very hard on the families .. very very hard
Ping.
Seems like a terrible idea to have the pilot sticks disconnected from each other, one pilot can be pulling full up and the other not know it.
Negligent homicide by the pilots.
It’s chilling to think the people into whose hands passengers place their lives could screw up so needlessly and badly.
Interesting coincidence, I was just thinking about that crash and the reason for it after my Chevy truck had a wiring harness go bad in the front axle.
55 mph and accelerating on a busy road when my speedometer just dropped to zero. The d*mn thing went into 1st gear, my anti-lock brakes started screwing up and I almost caused an accident. Having all those systems tied into each other like that made it far worse than it should have been and I had no way to correct any of it.
Made me think of the reason for that crash as I limped home in 1st gear.
That pilot picked one hell of a time to take a nap. Sad.
Read an in-depth report on the crash a few weeks back in one of my flying mags.
the net of it all is that despite ALL conventional wisdom, the PIC maintained a deliberate and excessive nose-up attitude on the aircraft and kept it in a stall, in the so-called ‘coffin corner’ of the flight envelope.
NET: The Pilot in Charge, in error, flew the aircraft into terrain (the ocean).
Pretty pathetic that the Captain has to take a nap less than 2 hours after take off all the while knowing his flight path intersects serious storm cells.
Sounds like an elevator trim tab problem.
I think the first post on this thread says it all.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2798577/posts
Chilling.
Stories like these don’t help this lifelong fraidy cat flyer. I have no experience flying a plane and even I know that if a plane stalls, you NEVER pull up. It seems to me we had an inexperienced guy who freaked out, a flawed design in the aircraft, and a total meltdown of discipline and experience in the end.
My son and I were discussing this crash last weekend.
He’s more knowledgeable on this stuff than me.
If electronics, gauges, displays fail, 75% power, 5 deg. nose up. hold the wings level.
At high altitudes the safe envelope is very narrow. High angle of attack...stall. Even at relatively high speed.
Too low angle of attack..over-speed.
It didn't "simply vanish." It fell into the sea. There, "mystery" solved.
I watched an episode of “Mayday” on this. It was particularly unsettling because of all the mistakes the pilots made.
The transcript is chilling. Having the greenest pilot in control of the aircraft was not a wise decision.
On the bright side, at least the passengers never knew what hit them. Aside from what was likely unnerving turbulence, they probably had little idea that their flight was in peril.
Sounds like a classic case of vertigo.
Poorly trained pilots stop trusting their instruments in stressful situations. Because they are unable to visually orient themselves, they get the sensation that they are falling, and instinctively pull back on the stick.
This is essentially what happened to JKF, Jr. back in ‘99.
Had this been a Boeing, the more experienced pilot would have sensed that the younger pilot was doing so.
Gee, darn handy those black boxes were found. Pilot error. Go figger.