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Good video thank you for sharing! The comments are brutalizing the pilot and co-pilot, but I wonder what came out of their debriefings because as said in the video, their instrumentation may or may not have given accurate readings.
Good video thank you for sharing! The comments are brutalizing the pilot and co-pilot, but I wonder what came out of their debriefings because as said in the video, their instrumentation may or may not have given accurate readings.
Good video thank you for sharing! The comments are brutalizing the pilot and co-pilot, but I wonder what came out of their debriefings because as said in the video, their instrumentation may or may not have given accurate readings.
That makes a lot of sense as to why so many people are saying that inexperience may have caused the crash. Most of them are pointing out that the captain had 3,500 hours of flight time and 700 hours in type and the copilot had only 70 in type. Complex flying conditions + inexperience + bad day = crash.Instrumentation should not be an issue as the critical instruments are duplicated and totally independent as in what the Capt sees and the FO sees come from two different sources. That way if one source fails the crew should quickly pick that variation in readings up and then follow the appropriate checklist. In an aircraft this modern the BITE system should throw an alert if the instruments are out by more than a minor amount.
Here's the report and a good professional summary.Darn it - no link to the actual report and I hate newspaper and ambulance chaser interpretations of any report. I will see if I can find it tomorrow - too tired now.
I saw the start of it in the mid 1990's to 2005. My employer started contracting out the Heavy C & D checks of out older aircraft types. At the time that would have been the 727 and DC-10 fleets. The results were predictable, decreased availability, and some questionable results. I remember having to take the DC-10's out of service to check the passenger O2 mask installations. This was after we had a DC-10 that was on a ferry flight from a contract maintenance facility loose pressurization on the way to Detroit. When the O2 masks deployed from the overhead bins the length of the O2 hoses were mixed up. The overhead PSU panels were not reinstalled in the same positions. The center seats should have long O2 hosed as the distance from the PSU panel to the seat in 6 to 8 feet. The outside seat positions should have shorter 4 feet hoses. If there would have been passengers on board would have had to stand to put on there O2 masks, or could not have put them on at all.I've read that private equity/capital equity have become involved in improving the profitability of the repair of aircraft. I think this alone could lead to a growing rate of crashes and accidents. capital equity typically erodes an industry by requiring year-over-year increases in return on investment. When there isn't growth, they start selling off assets that have value and cutting corners on everything. In today's lax regulatory environment, this can only lead to crashes.
Wall Street Wants To Fix Your Airplane
The airline-repair business has been beset by corporate outsourcing and spotty oversight — now, venture capitalists want a piece of the action.www.levernews.com
Which will mean more counterfeit spares. Even AF1 is not immune.they start selling off assets that have value and cutting corners on everything.