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Bungling US Airways pilots forgot to set computer and ignored warning alarm before plane crashed at Philadelphia airport earlier this year
An investigation into the US Airways flight that crashed at Philadelphia International Airport in March was found the two pilots failed to properly prepare the aircraft for takeoff. A Federal Aviation Administration report obtained by NBC10 found the pilots - who have not been named - did not enter velocity speeds into the flight computer. (www.dailymail.co.uk) עוד...
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Morbid but..."According to the report, the captain asked his co-pilot whether she had ever heard such an alarm on takeoff before and she said 'no'."
“We’ll get that straight when we get airborne,” officials quoted the pilot as saying.
Do you suppose there is a job for this guy at Spirit?
“We’ll get that straight when we get airborne,” officials quoted the pilot as saying.
Do you suppose there is a job for this guy at Spirit?
When I enter data on the computer at work, if I forget to put something required in, a big red box appears and it will not let me go on until I fix my errors. I am no computer expert, but it seems to me that a big red warning should appear if you forget to put in something important in the aircraft computer. It is a little late to have an alarm go off when you are rolling down the runway.
Probably has something to do with the metric system...
A typical TO speed for an Airbus 320 is 150 MPH; the report says it reached 187 MPH so it could have flonw away at perhaps a modest rate of climb which they could have correcped by pushing the throttles further forward. The captain and probably his copilot should be out of a job by now: poor decisión making after not entering the right speed on the computer.
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