The Dutch preliminary report on the loss of the Boeing 737-800 at Amsterdam in February is out and it shows that matters are more complex than first realised. No surprise of course.A lot of commenters here and elsewhere were pretty critical of the crew's behaviour and the report gives the critics some added evidence, but also some additional points to ponder.
Turns out that they were offered, and accepted, a descent onto the
glidepath from above, which is never great, but the unspoken pressure
on you at a busy hub in good weather is always there. But then they
ended up below 800ft before they got speed back to reference. Is that
OK? I think some will say yes and some no. Borderline anyway.
Meanwhile they'd already been experiencing spurious configuration warnings at altitude - possibly due to the radalt fault at the centre of the whole thing - and then received new ones on approach. And that in an aircraft now known, though not specified whether they knew, to have had the fault before. All of which would shape your mindset I think.
So, when the misguided autothrottle quietly pulled the power back on them, is it quite so unforgivable not to have realised what was going on?
Finally, there's a comment in the report suggesting, though not quite as clearly as it might, that the cockpit door may not have been locked as previously suggested.
Full report here.
Meanwhile they'd already been experiencing spurious configuration warnings at altitude - possibly due to the radalt fault at the centre of the whole thing - and then received new ones on approach. And that in an aircraft now known, though not specified whether they knew, to have had the fault before. All of which would shape your mindset I think.
So, when the misguided autothrottle quietly pulled the power back on them, is it quite so unforgivable not to have realised what was going on?
Finally, there's a comment in the report suggesting, though not quite as clearly as it might, that the cockpit door may not have been locked as previously suggested.
Full report here.
on June 16, 2009 3:51 PM | Reply
This case is identical to Boeing-777-236ER at Heathrow 0on 17 January 2008.
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