It's hard to argue with your final point <br>Mr. F. but it appears that one pilot, the one with the authority made the wrong call or so it appears. ...
The investigators didn't totally deny the report but claimed it was misleading. We will probably never be privy to that information. We have received very ...
Mark, up until now I have not stated an opinion of whether the crew should have tried to land immediately or not. Its all to easy to second-guess in 20/20 ...
<<Question, have the Canadian authorities ever made any recommendations regarding the crew's operating procedures?>><br><br>Yes, the Transportation...
There's another factor that can weigh upon a pilot's decision whether or not to make a grossly overweight emergency landing (even though in extremis - or more...
[cont'd]<br><br> And Zimmerman would have known that landing would have been that much testier if he'd needed to lose that LSAS electrically. I would suggest ...
Excellent post. Thank you for that perspective. <br><br>Since knowing what may be going through the mind of a pilot in a particular situation is so difficult,...
Major MD-11 structural damage during a normal landing at LAX:<br><br><a href=http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief2.asp?ev_id=20001208X05803&ntsbno=LAX96FA206&akey=1...
Swissair collapse raises profound questions for boardrooms<br> <br> <br><br>Many SAirGroup board members had other preoccupations [Keystone Archive] <br>...
Dagger,<br><br>You raise some good points, but I'm still not convinced. <br><br>I suspect that you are right that the check-list and possibly the simulation...
Barbara, I believe it is a correct statement, that none of the SR111 pilots where aware of these two crucial facts - that against all sound design philosophy ...
"And I do think that it is/was a criminal act that they had not been made aware of these circumstances (lack of knowledge and specific training)."<br><br>Len,...
<<The Risk of Remaining Airborne--Emergency Landing A00-18 - Appropriate regulatory authorities take action to ensure that industry standards reflect a ...
Crossair Crash Clues Suggest CFIT, Airline Says <br><br><br>By Sean Broderick/AviationNow.com <br><br>29-Nov-2001 3:01 PM U.S. EST <br><br> <br><br>With no ...
They key words there being " as possible". What is possible and what is not can be subjective. Technically it shouldn't be, but judgement calls have to be ...
Mark<br>The MD-11 (and most other) smoke-checklist(s) is obviously flawed but that flaw, in the case of the MD-11, is built into the a/c design (see admissions...
[cont'd] <<"wouldn't this be indicative of a *very* serious systems failure and make landing even more urgent?">> If they had made the decision to...
[cont'd] And finally, to reiterate my original point (and from the latest post on that same Pprune thread I referred you to - forgive the length but it's ...
Dagger, all good points but here's what bothers me. I feel at the very moment the captain began to smell an odor suspicious of smoke, he should have began a...
Barbara<br>Good points in return. TVB said that SR used a video of that 1993 incident for aircrew training prior to SR111 - and we know that they were ...
A quote from the TSB recommendations:<br><br>"Although in-flight fires like that aboard Swissair Flight 111 are rare, the TSB review shows that in a situation...
Well said Barbara. <br><br>Your questions are the very important questions that should be answered someday. <br><br>I would have to imagine that any pilot upon...
Unfortunately, everyone involved seems to have interests other than simply answering the simple question, "What happened to SR111." One would hope that such a ...
Napa, If you are interested there is a good database of information regarding wiring regulations etc., if you download this file from the IASA site:<br><br><a...
Please read posts 19615 thru 19617 at the aviationsafety club.<br>Some interesting and deviating facts avout the Concorde crash in July 2000.<br>If this info ...
Agreed Mr. F. <br><br>The many different viewpoints expressed while interesting seem to have an agenda to push but Im wondering if this is due to the fact that...
As a Canadian, sometimes it seems to me that we outdo ourselves at being small 'super c' conservative. We strive for excellence almost at any cost. For ...
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