'Cone of Silence' (1960) • a classic of the let's-blame-the-pilots genre

[Garfly]

The full movie is now out on YT's Cult Cinema Classics channel.

It pays more respect to aeronautical realities (both physics and politics) than the average aviation movie does.

And there's a nice part in it for our own 'Bud' Tingwell, mid career. 

 

"At the dawn of jet-powered commercial aviation, an unexplained crash is hastily blamed on pilot error, disgraced Captain Gort must infiltrate the airline's inner circle to expose a lethal design flaw. With corporate forces silencing whistleblowers and another flight scheduled on the same doomed aircraft, he races to ground the plane before history repeats mid-air."

 

 

[facthunter]

Still Happens  . Boeing blamed the Pilots for the planes crashing that were grounded, eventually. Read "Fate is the Hunter"  The anti-icing on the DC4- C54 is near useless in certain conditions.   I found that out the Hard way.  Nev

[facthunter]

If  you are looking for a lot of technical Authenticity, this "Film" may not be for you.  Such "set ups" are unfortunately still with us. I did a Lot of Para legal work looking after Pilot's Interests and saved quite a few Pilot's Jobs. The Purpose of  investigations should be Primarily to Prevent similar things occurring again by Improved training Better Instrumentation. More attention to Fatigue. Better Cockpit resource management. Better instrument approach practices and calls Mental illness  Alcohol detection and remedial schemes. Checking methods,  threat and error management. Situational awareness Human factors Training  Practices etc. Sometimes I think we haven't got that far. Nev

[onetrack]

New pilots keep coming along on a constant basis, and they keep making the same old mistakes!