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They were talking to a retired pilot on the news and they asked him how it was possible that no distress call was made from the plane. The pilot said that pilot
by lbsnake7 13y ago
They were talking to a retired pilot on the news and they asked him how it was possible that no distress call was made from the plane. The pilot said that pilots are trained to keep the plane in the air, if something starts to go wrong they start troubleshooting and focus all their energy on fixing the problem. If they then have time to send out a call, they do, but their main priority is to try and keep the plane in the air.
So it's possible that if the problem they experienced was complicated or happened too quickly, they never got a chance to send out a distress signal.
- einhverfr 13y agoAs I think about it, with the growing complexity of automated systems on the aircraft, the things that can go wrong multiply, and the chance of getting a distress call out diminish :-P
- marcosdumay 13y agoThe plane has a set of automatic distress signals. No pilot intervention is required for those.
- einhverfr 13y agoBut those don't cover a staggering number of possible electronics, avionics, and such mishaps.