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All the engineering in the world isn’t going to save you if the pilot is as incompetent as the one in the Buffalo crash was.
by bstar77 6y ago
All the engineering in the world isn’t going to save you if the pilot is as incompetent as the one in the Buffalo crash was.
- WalterBright 6y agoEngineers can make all the parts safe except for the nut behind the wheel. (Having a copilot helps.)
- newsclues 6y agoAs of yet the human is the problem engineers are currently working to remove from the equation
- tomjakubowski 6y agoI hope what they want is to reduce the likelihood of human error causing catastrophic failure. Not necessarily to take humans out of the loop altogether.
- zamfi 6y agoThe former may require the latter.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoyou can't just say that and not tell me how he put his nose up (the exact opposite of what you are supposed to do in a stall warning) and even overrode the automatic stick-pusher, leaving the poor plane to gyrate like this https://youtu.be/lxywEE1kK6I?t=120 https://youtu.be/lxywEE1kK6I?t=120 (and confusing the poor airport ATC who didn't understand where the plane went)
- Retric 6y agoReally interesting comment on that video which might give some explanation: The pilots of Colgan Air had to attend a "tail-stall" course about a month prior to the accident. As a professional pilot I know that if I found myself in a stall less than a month after training about it, the first thing that comes to mind is a "tail stall" and the recovery procedure is counter-intuitive (pitch up, not down). A tail stall has very subtle differences from that of a regular and are hard to distinguish which are which. I have don’t know how accurate it is, but it’s a solid reminder how complex some seemingly obvious things to non experts are. https://aircrafticing.grc.nasa.gov/1_3_4_3.html https://aircrafticing.grc.nasa.gov/1_3_4_3.html
- LandR 6y agoOr his wife told hom she's divorcing him that morning and he flies you into a mountain. Flying is terrifying.