How one confused pilot killed over 200 people.. - Lateral-g Forums

**Steve1968LS2** · #1 12-08-2011, 05:30 PM

Wow.. just wow..

http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...ce-447-6611877

Talk about suspensful reading.. too bad it was a real tragedy.. all because one co-pilot somehow forgot the basics of flying.. what a cluster fk and none of those people needed to die in a perfectly functioning aircraft

David Pozzi · #2 12-08-2011, 06:30 PM

Wow, amazing to read that!

Boss 5.0 · #3 12-08-2011, 06:31 PM

horrifying.....

**GregWeld** · #4 12-08-2011, 06:36 PM

That transcript was actually hard to read (emotionally) because you want to yell at the guy!

Okay -- I'm walking to Europe for the Monaco Grand Prix in May.... no way I'm flying now!

skatinjay27 · #5 12-08-2011, 06:50 PM

indeed a compelling read! gave me goosebumps after reading it...

James OLC · #6 12-08-2011, 08:28 PM

As a guy whos been flying something around 10,000 miles a month lately it scares the heck out me that in addition to the mechanical complications of flight I'm still ultimately at the mercy of guys like this.

And for what it's worth, while the copilot ultimately crashed the plane through his incompetence, there were two other huge human errors that ultimately brought the plane down - not looking at the weather they were heading in to (and having the radar set wrong) and the captain heading for a nap as he plane entered a bad storm, leaving the most jr pilot in command,

Musclerodz · #7 12-08-2011, 08:36 PM

Sounds very much like vertigo got the best of them. Still the safest form on transportation in the world today.

**Rybar** · #8 12-08-2011, 09:12 PM

Wow that is just nuts, I've been wondering what happened with this crash for some time. Had no idea they found the black boxes...

That is a very scary read. I think they should put video recorders in cockpits to better understand what happened vs just voice recorders.

RIP to the people who died on board.

**Steve1968LS2** · #9 12-08-2011, 09:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by James OLC

As a guy whos been flying something around 10,000 miles a month lately it scares the heck out me that in addition to the mechanical complications of flight I'm still ultimately at the mercy of guys like this.

And for what it's worth, while the copilot ultimately crashed the plane through his incompetence, there were two other huge human errors that ultimately brought the plane down - not looking at the weather they were heading in to (and having the radar set wrong) and the captain heading for a nap as he plane entered a bad storm, leaving the most jr pilot in command,

Actually the second most senior pilot let the low guy keep command when the Captain left..

I like how Boeing ties the controls together.. this "averaging" deal seems flawed.

David Pozzi · #10 12-08-2011, 10:11 PM

It isn't good when one guy is pulling full up on the controls and the other guy doesn't even know it! Really there were 3 flying that plane, two co-pilots and the computer!
I'm sure they have a gps speedometer on the plane somewhere but there is information overload if you ever look in a cockpit.