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Commercial airliners crash into mountains even with the ground proximity warning actually. Out of my memory, in Nepal alone all of the following happened despi
by epolanski 3y ago
Commercial airliners crash into mountains even with the ground proximity warning actually.
Out of my memory, in Nepal alone all of the following happened despite ground proximity warning Tara Air 197 in 2022, Paki 268 and Thai 311 are some I can think of but I'm sure there's more.
Problem is: even if GPW is activated pilots may not be trained correctly to handle the warning, they may distrust the warning due to it being active concurrently with other malfunctions, lack of spacial awareness, puzzlement/stress, etc.
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- justsomehnguy 3y ago> Commercial airliners crash into mountains even with the ground proximity warning actually. Yeah. Hearing ATC repeatedly calling in and receiving no response is a gut wrenching experience. And maybe I just watch way less news than two decades ago, but reporting of the air incidents is way lower, especially if it happened somewhere elsewhere.
- Someone 3y agohttps://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm https://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm shows the number of crashes with 19 or more fatalities about halved in the past two decades. The total number of fatalities also about halved in that time frame. I think those data points explain at least part of the lower reporting.
- eep_social 3y agoAnd the time series on that page aren’t normalized to number of passenger-miles flown, which had been increasing rapidly through 2019.
- epolanski 3y agoSure, air travel is safer than it has ever been. I was just pointing out that better warnings did not eliminate the problem entirely as the title seems to suggest.
- brazzy 3y ago> Commercial airliners crash into mountains even with the ground proximity warning actually. A lot less often than they used to, though.
- smazga 3y agoI flew from Ramichaap to Lukla (Nepal on Tara Air) earlier this year and GND PROX was flashing on the screen the entire time. I thought it was funny and took a photo. The terrain and flight path don't really get you to a safe altitude above the ground.
- epolanski 3y agoThat sounds odd and unusual.