AF 447 disaster, June 2009

[onetrack]

Nev, the bottom line is, every single A330 aircraft manufactured, flew consistently without a major fatality in passenger service - for FIFTEEN years - between 1994 and 2009. AF 447 became the first major fatality disaster and hull loss for that model aircraft, and it can only be put down to crew incompetence in dealing with a flight upset.

This problem is common to many aircraft disasters, and it's the reason why pilots and crew are found to be at fault in the vast majority of aircraft disasters, where perfectly good aircraft are destroyed due to inadequate piloting skills, and personalities that are unsuited to the peculiar demands of piloting. No doubt, you have personally declined to train some students in the art of flying, due to the fact you recognised that they were an accident looking for a place to happen.

[Garfly]

It doesn't have to to be one thing or the other. I think it's all of the above.

You might say, as Sully sort of does, that side-stick tech was also an accident looking for a place to happen.

Panic, as we know, might turn an otherwise competent pilot to mush.  And it's hard to simulate in training or testing.

So we look to systems as backstops for HF failings.

 

 

 

Edited 14 hours ago by Garfly

[facthunter]

Only ONE that I can recall and He crashed 2 aeroplanes injuring a Passenger in each CASE. One plane Burned to a crisp. I had another with only One eye who had depth Perception issues. A few here and there that I Have advised they get another hobby. Not necessarily MY own students. Not everyone is good Pilot Material and shouldn't expect that Having Paid Money a Pass is Guaranteed. Often Long term Pilots will Fail a conversion onto a New type and Leave the Industry.. It's not an easy game to get a Job in and you spend Heaps of Coin to get the Qualifications. You can Medical out also.

   Nothing in all this should deter you from flying Airbus.  High altitude UPSETS are More trained for. I've NEVER taken a plane through a Storm cell since Radar was fitted.   Mid 60's. Nev