https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfgO90yGusI
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Larry Turner via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Speaking of A380s, there was a show on Smithonian channel called "Air > Disasters" which features various airliner/aircraft incidents. Yesterday > they featured a A380 with a crew of 3 that was on auto pilot when the pilot > brought his (9 ur old?) daughter and 15 yr old son into the cockpit and he > first let the daughter sit in the pilots seat and she let her hands rest on > the control yoke. Then his 15 year old son had his turn. He did the same > with his hands, but being stronger, he was able to put more pressure on the > yoke. That's when disaster struck as a feature of the new A380 (and many > other planes) kicked in -- when pressure is put on the yoke for approx 30 > sec part of the Auto pilot becomes disabled. At that point the 15 y.o. > teen was controlling the rudder while the autopilot continued to (try to) > control the rest. Evidently this is a feature some commercial pilots > like. At that point the auto pilot tried to keep the plane on course by > adjusting the other controls. It appears the crew was not trained in this > feature. Eventually the plane began to roll while the son was still in the > pilot seat. But maybe forces kept him seated. So the situation continued > to deteriorate as the plane began to dive then roll and slow spin as the > crew tried to regain control - the pilot was seated once again. Eventually > they appeared to pull the nose up and stop the spinning, but as the plane > climbed they over-corrected and it was almost vertical when it stalled. It > appeared the auto pilot was still in partial control during all of this > which happened in approx 40 sec. All these maneuvers used a lot of > altitude and they ran into a mountain. The airline was the Russian > Aeroflot and they said that while what the pilot did was technically > illegal many did it. Hmmm. I pray American commercial planes have a little > better cockpit security. > > It's amazing to see the amount of info they get from the cockpit recorders. > > LarryT > > 91 300D > > > On 03/17/2017 4:59 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: > >> They probably should have been further apart even if it wasn't a 380 >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Mar 17, 2017, at 2:44 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes < >>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> Yes, but the smaller plane was no Piper Cub. It was a twin engine jet. >>> The air traffic controllers need to keep these things separated by more >>> air. >>> There was only a thousand vertical feet between them when the A380 >>> passed overhead. >>> >>> RB >>> >>> On 17/03/2017 2:40 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>>> With a plane that big it takes a lot of thrust to keep it going which >>>> really stirs up the air behind it. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On Mar 17, 2017, at 1:59 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes < >>>>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> http://avherald.com/h?article=4a5e80f3 >>>>> >>>>> RB >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________ >>>>> >>>>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> 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 >>> >>> >> _______________________________________ >> 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 >> >> >> > _______________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________ 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
