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I ended up finding my way to that after reading TFA and Googling 427. Not just that, but the fact that they had audio all the way down, and the pilots utter di
by zaroth 8y ago
I ended up finding my way to that after reading TFA and Googling 427.
Not just that, but the fact that they had audio all the way down, and the pilots utter disbelief that they plane was responding to his inputs in the way that it was.
The idea that they were not actually supposed to pull up in the scenario but leave the stick level and just turn hard right is unbelievable. The amount of training to be able to react like that instinctively would be tremendous.
The plane hit 3 or 4 G and apparently the copilot could be heard straining on the tape. They were analyzing the pilot’s gasping to deduce how he way applying rudder because the black box didn’t record rudder inputs at the time.
All of this is inconceivable. The sheer speed of the event and how quickly that 30 second video is over is probably the most shocking.
This one showing the pilot inputs is even more terrifying:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/USAir_Flight_427_Cockpit.ogv https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/USAir_Fl...