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The "black hole effect" is one mitigating factor - if you take off on a moonless night, it is surprisingly disorienting, and can become debilitating. These pilo
by nilsbunger 5y ago
The "black hole effect" is one mitigating factor - if you take off on a moonless night, it is surprisingly disorienting, and can become debilitating. These pilots missed a bunch of very basic things like rotating at V1. Maybe they got totally disoriented and it incapacitated them? Good training is supposed to prevent that. This wasn't a "missed an item on a checklist" story.
- stereo 5y agoWe're talking about Dubai, which is probably one of the brightest places in the world at night.
- kylehotchkiss 5y agoIt’s a very narrow city on the coast and you take off towards the water. It’ll get dark pretty fast.
- rurban 5y agoIf you look at the map, you'll notice that the plane was at 60m altitude in Downtown Dubai, at overspeed (600km/h) with highly lit skyscrapers of 200m left and right of you. Almost another 9/11. You cannot make that up even in desaster movies.
- t0mas88 5y agoThe black hole effect applies to visual flight, mostly the landing part. Not accelerating on a runway with runway lights and completely forgetting to look at the basic instruments.