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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Asiana Airlines Inc said the pilot in charge of landing the Boeing 777 that crash-landed at San Francisco's airport on Saturday was training for the long-range plane and that it was his first flight to the airport with the jet. Yikes!
2 posted on
07/07/2013 8:20:55 PM PDT by
Gay State Conservative
(The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Well, hopefully he doesn’t return to the cockpit. He failed.
3 posted on
07/07/2013 8:21:36 PM PDT by
moviefan8
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Passengers should be notified before they board
that they will be passengers in a Driver`s Ed class.
4 posted on
07/07/2013 8:23:47 PM PDT by
bunkerhill7
(("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Who was the Pilot in Command?
5 posted on
07/07/2013 8:24:32 PM PDT by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
6 posted on
07/07/2013 8:24:42 PM PDT by
NautiNurse
(Now we all have Obama phones.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I understand that pilots need experience that is how they learn how to be pilots, but the co-pilot, he supposedly knew what he was doing..what the hell was he doing the entire time, just sitting there like a bump on a log
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Well I suppose he’s going to lose points for that landing.
9 posted on
07/07/2013 8:26:50 PM PDT by
2111USMC
(Aim Small Miss Small)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
10 posted on
07/07/2013 8:27:11 PM PDT by
Paladin2
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Consider: The co-pilot, with significantly more B777 experience, did not challenge the captain’s throttle settings, airspeed or anything. The captain was allowed to save face, all the way to impact.
12 posted on
07/07/2013 8:28:23 PM PDT by
tpmintx
(Gun free zones are hunting preserves for unarmed people.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Similar scenario in the cockpit of the Air France flight that went down over the South Atlantic several years ago. In this instance it wasn't an approach landing but at 30, 000 ft. plus when the aircraft went thru a thunderstorm. Captain was taking a short rest break and inexperienced pilot lost control.
17 posted on
07/07/2013 8:31:50 PM PDT by
BluH2o
To: Oldeconomybuyer
CRM failure then? The co-pilot / trainer deferring to the pilot, not wanting to correct his superior?
18 posted on
07/07/2013 8:32:09 PM PDT by
NonValueAdded
(Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Jeez!Admitting guilt unheard of.
Well their goes another airline.
20 posted on
07/07/2013 8:34:25 PM PDT by
GSP.FAN
(Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
It will take 18 months to conclude pilot error.
21 posted on
07/07/2013 8:34:32 PM PDT by
depressed in 06
(America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why did they release the pilot’s name? Good grief.
23 posted on
07/07/2013 8:35:36 PM PDT by
bboop
(does not suffer fools gladly)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Wasn’t the chief pilot monitoring his approach? When all the system alarms was telling him he’s too low and too slow why didn’t the chief pilot take over? You don’t do a check ride with a full load of passengers.
24 posted on
07/07/2013 8:36:08 PM PDT by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I suspected as much, as this seems like a very basic pilot error. Now the question is how well were the pilots trained at that airline? Do they really know how to fly an airplane, or are they taught to enter numbers into a flight computer?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Guess he failed the final exam.....?
28 posted on
07/07/2013 8:44:25 PM PDT by
njslim
(St)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I see a lot of mindless speculation and jumping to conclusions on this thread.
Every pilot has a first time for landing at ANY airport.
Everyone, including FReepers, should calm down until an official investigation is complete. Remember, news reports are, more often then not, full of inaccuracies or total misinformation.
Remember the old adage “Better to be thought a fool, then to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.
29 posted on
07/07/2013 8:46:37 PM PDT by
AlexW
To: Oldeconomybuyer
CNN has a bit more info:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/07/us/plane-crash-main/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
“The pilot, Lee Kang-gook, had flown from Seoul to the city several times between 1999 and 2004, the airline said.”
In other words he had not flown to SF for the past 10 years and didn’t have experience with a Boeing 777 (just 43 hrs). It turned out to be a lethal combination.
31 posted on
07/07/2013 8:49:33 PM PDT by
Innovative
("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Pilots with gray hair or no hair are very preferable when you happen to be a passenger.
Actually this goes the same for many professions...
34 posted on
07/07/2013 8:54:47 PM PDT by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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