However, he continued to pull back even after it was established that they were going too slowly, which was probably a panic reaction in response to the plane rapidly losing altitude.He was pulling up because he panicked so hard that his pilot training was overruled by the primitive lizard-brain thinking "We are going down. Except the wheels aren't mechanically connected so you can't tell.Now imagine you're doing that blindfolded. Not many. from the Eastern Air copilot and "But what's happening?" Reminds me of the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401. Feel free to add additional information in the comments. from the Eastern Air copilot and "But what's happening?" To add to that, the plane impacted with the engines running, the wings level, and a nose-up attitude.So while there's no way to know for sure, it seems likely that most of the passengers never saw it coming.During the climb, soon after departure, an explosion knocked the front third of the aircraft right off.
It sounds like it is more advanced, and is obviously preferred over older systems. When I attempted the maneuver, I ended up in a dive to right. from the Air France copilot. I don't think something written could even be as dramatic as the real event. It's easy to blame Bonin because in this situation he was an actual idiot. The content and timing of release of the written transcript are strictly regulated: under federal law, transcripts of pertinent portions of cockpit voice recordings are released at a Safety Board public hearing on the accident or, if no hearing is held, when a majority of the factual reports are made public. Going down is bad. I hope they don't release the audio, because I know I'll be too curious to stay away.Out of respect for the pilots, I don't think the audio portion of recordings are ever released.EDIT: HOLY DOWNVOTES!
With that, the Air France A330 plunged belly-first into the Atlantic Ocean and was immediately swallowed up by waves. As forward thrust was lost, downward momentum was gathering.
The pilots on the Airbus didn't know that Bonin was doing everything he could to crash the airplane.New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castVideos, gifs, or aftermath photos of machinery, structures, or devices that have failed catastrophically during operation.Press J to jump to the feed. We need to go up, because going up is good and going down is bad. from the Air France copilot.I swear that looks like Les Abend in the right seat.It's definitely terrifying how when our brain is presented with a situation that is unfamiliar, it can force us to act in a completely nonsensical and irrational way.The situations the co-pilots were faced with SHOULD NOT have been unfamiliar. A pilot at cruising altitude, especially at night, essentially has no visual reference that tell him which way he's going or where the plane is pointing. Has a few examples of operators who just get stuck in a loop, doing the same thing over and over until they die.I wonder if it's possible Bonin's thinking was affected by a heavy dose of EMR, sitting as he was in that front seat amidst an in-cockpit St. Elmo's fire event. "I only have a small complaint, the images with text are barely readable. Fatty tissue can transform into a kind of hard wax which slows decomposition" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12989002) Read the sidebar BEFORE posting.Press J to jump to the feed.
They're not. When the instruments did recover, they did not believe them.As a student pilot part of our training is to execute a series of maneuvers with our eyes closed during a night flight. the air france passenger bodies were preserved intact on the ocean floor for two years. While air moves Based on your posts, I'm sure that you already know this.
He probably wasn't an idiot under normal circumstances though (although still French), it's just that in this case his brain had already leapt to its doom.A good read on the subject is "Inviting Disaster" by James Chiles. What a tragedy, especially considering the cause.Thanks! Any more detail on what readings the pilots were actually seeing?They were seeing that the plane was dropping fast, and that was the main useful information.
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