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TL;DR from the article is a newbie pushed the column forward by accident and corrected very quickly. Dropped from 600 feet to 400 feet at a rate of 4,000 feet p
by vundercind 2y ago
TL;DR from the article is a newbie pushed the column forward by accident and corrected very quickly. Dropped from 600 feet to 400 feet at a rate of 4,000 feet per minute. That’s about three seconds of too-fast descent at a constant 4,000ft/minute, though it wouldn’t have been constant so it may have been a bit longer that that, mostly at lower rates of descent.
Not some huge plunge. Worth an investigation but the headline’s clickbaity.
- weaksauce 2y ago> TL;DR from the article is a newbie pushed the column forward that newbie has at least 1500 hours of flying in order to qualify as a first officer. not exactly new to flying. in europe(and used to be in the US before one accident that was not really related to their experience flying) it's something like 300 for FO but the captain is much more experienced.
- sgjohnson 2y ago> it's something like 300 It’s actually 0 in Europe.
- jnwatson 2y agoIt was a particularly bad time to make that mistake.