![]() ![]() Despite the aircraft literally screaming what the problem was, the aircrew didn't pick up on it. Out of curiosity, would it be wiser to shoot down a known ghost plane over an area where the damage can’t harm those on the ground, or let it crash to allow potential data gathering with the risk?Īwesome write up as always, but one area that probably needed a bit more emphasis here was the issue of hypoxia recognition.Īs the actions of the flight crew (or inactions as the case may be) indicate the onset of hypoxia is insidious. Human error, but an easy fix based on the presumption humans always err, would have saved it. It’s also fascinating the plane design allowed such altitude to be selected without first automatically switching the system back to auto (there would be no reason to fly with it on manual at all). ![]() “ Fighter jets followed it down, watching as it glided to its doom, when, to their amazement, a person appeared in the cockpit - a mysterious figure, not one of the pilots, who sat in the left seat and whispered desperate “mayday” calls until the end, unable to stop the plane from crashing.”Īs for the cause, it’s fascinating that three people, despite multiple checks triggering the issue, missed that the setting was still on manual. ![]() The things he must have been thinking, praying for, the fight to even get that far. Man, you really set the tone in this article right off the bat. I recall that by this time the CVR recording on an airliner was extended from 30 to 120 minutes, or did this happen after 2005 (but even so the recording would have begun after the pilots fell unconscious)? Sad for Alan Irwin, he made an innocent mistake which he probably wasn't the first person to do so, that there were multiple opportunities for the pilots to realize the Pressurization switch wasn't on AUTO but were missed, and his life was greatly affected for something he bore an incredibly tiny fraction for. The explanation that Prodromou was looking for the codes to the cockpit and just before the plane ran out of fuel found it makes the most sense for me as it's been a lingering question as to why he didn't enter the cockpit until it was practically too late and explanations people come up with - such as he entered, then left, waited, then came back, or just waited for 3 hours - don't make sense. Never knew that there were multiple cases in which pilots confused the Cabin Altitude warning with the TOWS and this was quite documented in the years prior to this crash. ![]()
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