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> Colgan 3407 crashed because of a profound and astounding lack of basic airmanship I agree. I think the New Yorker just picked wrong incident to try to advanc
by dba7dba 12y ago
> Colgan 3407 crashed because of a profound and astounding lack of basic airmanship
I agree. I think the New Yorker just picked wrong incident to try to advance their theory. The particular pilot in Colgan 3407 flight FAILED a check ride in another airline. I understand this check ride is after you have already flown hundreds/thousands of flights and he somehow failed it.
- ubernostrum 12y agoIt's not just the Colgan incident; investigation into the Air France 447 crash concluded the crew did not recognize a stall, and may have been relying on an incorrect belief that the aircraft would not accept inputs that would produce a stall (which, for Airbus aircraft, is true except in alternate-law situations which occur when -- as with AF447 -- the flight systems notice a fault in data).
- liotier 12y agoAF447 is also a wrong stall response, but with different reasons: the pilot was incorrectly second-guessing what the plane was trying to tell him.