I kept reading this waiting for the punch line. I guess its no joke :-(
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Gerry Archer <arche...@embarqmail.com>wrote: > Russian crash investigators find voice recorder >> >> The last word the pilot of the Boeing 737 uttered was "circle." Moments >> later the jetliner slammed into the ground, investigators said Wednesday, >> killing all 50 people on board. >> The Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee, which investigates plane >> crashes across the former Soviet Union, concluded a day earlier that the >> crew failed to land at first attempt, began to stall in a steep climb, then >> overcompensated -- plunging the plane into a near-vertical dive. The report >> was based on the data retrieved from the plane's flight parameters >> recorder, which also showed that its engines and other systems were working >> fine until the plane hit the ground. >> On Wednesday, search teams found a tape of cockpit conversations -- a >> crucial piece of evidence that was missing when its container was found the >> day before. The recording is expected to shed light upon the motives behind >> the series of faulty maneuvers that led to the crash. >> Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee, Russia's >> main criminal investigative agency conducting its own probe into the crash, >> said that recordings of the crew's conversations with the control tower >> sounded routine. >> The pilot reported that the plane was in a wrong position for the landing >> and confirmed getting a traffic controller's command to circle the airport >> prior to making a second run. "The final word the pilot said before the >> crash was 'circle,'" Markin said in a statement. >> The Tatarstan Airlines plane was flying from Moscow to the central city >> of Kazan, 720 kilometers (450 miles) to the east. >> Moscow's Interstate Aviation Committee's report concluded that to prepare >> the jet for a second try, the crew switched off autopilot and put the >> plane's engines on maximum power, raising the plane's nose to an angle of >> about 25 degrees. The abrupt move apparently caused the jetliner to lose >> speed. >> The normal procedure during an aborted landing is to apply near-maximum >> power and assume about a 5-to-7 degree nose-up attitude, said Kevin Hiatt, >> a former Delta Air Lines chief pilot and president of the Flight Safety >> Foundation, a U.S.-based nonprofit. >> "Twenty-five degrees nose-up is excessive. There's no question about that >> whatsoever," Hiatt said. "Why they determined they needed to go to that >> high an angle will be part of the investigation." >> At an altitude of about 700 meters (2,200 feet), the crew then tried to >> gain speed in order to avert a stall by putting the nose of the plane down. >> The report said the plane then went into a dive of about 75 degrees and hit >> the tarmac. >> Airplanes can sometimes recover from steep dives but they must be at a >> sufficiently high altitude. >> The committee said it took only 45 seconds from the moment the crew put >> the engines at maximum throttle until the moment the Boeing smashed into >> the ground. >> Such "loss of control" accidents are responsible for more deaths than any >> other type of plane crash because they are rarely survivable, according to >> the Flight Safety Foundation, an industry-supported global aviation safety >> nonprofit based in Alexandria, Virginia. >> The head of Tartarstan Airlines, Aksan Giniyatullin, said Tuesday that >> the plane's two pilots had sufficient experience, ranging from 1,900 to >> 2,500 hours, but admitted that they apparently had no experience with >> attempting a second landing. >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- Jaime Kopchinski http://www.jaimekop.com/ _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
