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Where in the report does it say that it was the plane and not the pilots that retracted the landing gear? As far as I know, there is nothing in the flight softw
by donarb 6y ago
Where in the report does it say that it was the plane and not the pilots that retracted the landing gear? As far as I know, there is nothing in the flight software that automatically deploys/retracts the landing gear, it's under the pilots control.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoIn the video linked above the gear stays retracted (with overspeed alarm sounding!) until the speed reduces. The speed doesn't reduce until they go-around and the engines fail. The gear then extends which bleeds airspeed, they turn hard, lose altitude and crash 1km short; with a massive loss of lives. It doesn't seem right that their approach could be so fast? So perhaps the pilots themselves lowered the gear. A comment on YouTube suggests that the gear does behave that way, it holds the command to lower gear and enacts it when airspeed falls sufficiently?
- donarb 6y agoI was talking about the first approach. On the second approach they did lower their gear, expecting to land. But both engines died and they lacked the power to reach the runway. Back to the first approach, if you look at the report with the graph of the speed/altitude, the landing gear is retracted just after they are told by ATC to abort the landing and go around. See page 11. https://www.caapakistan.com.pk/Upload/SIBReports/AAIB-431.pdf https://www.caapakistan.com.pk/Upload/SIBReports/AAIB-431.pd...