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The difference being that Airbus pilots are trained and aware of this behaviour. If it's inherently dangerous why aren't they falling out of the sky?
by SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
The difference being that Airbus pilots are trained and aware of this behaviour. If it's inherently dangerous why aren't they falling out of the sky?
- mrguyorama 8y agoThey are trained and aware, but in high stress situations pilots sometimes forget things like that, which was significant in the air france crash. The pilot who had better control of the situation only momentarily pressed the button used to take full control, when you are supposed to hold it as long as you wish to keep control. I believe the "dual input" warning was also not aggressive enough at the time
- ddalex 8y agoIt didn't help that the pilot flying was the one that made the error, and the other one, who correctly understood the situation, was the pilot monitoring. Even more, the pilot monitoring didn't explicitly take control of the aircraft - "My aircraft". Bonin was under the impression that he's in charge, and was utterly confused by the whole situation, until the end. As with each aviation accident, it's not a single cause of failure - it's a swiss cheese model of failures, where it just happened that all the holes aligned - from the flight law dropping to alternate, to Bonin who didn't trust what the computers said, to the other pilots not understanding completely what Bonin did, to the pitot tubes freezing.