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luisrolichir15 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
i am vald !
armanys2003 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
yes Brian. how have you been?
bg11215 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Vlad is that you? I thought you sounded familiar:)
PAULLONDEN (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
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an Empire State Building
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VonHeler1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
For pity's sake everyone on Youtube is a bloody pilot. I agree with an earlier comment - there was little more the pilot could do in an extremely alarming situation. How easy is it to sit in front of your PC and talk about calm without hundreds of lives and your own in your hands.
Gerrit22041992 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
i agree with vyou, i am a pilot to. But i only flew gliding planes...
armanys2003 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
lets put it in this way 'certain accidents could have been prevented if the pilot/s would act in different way'. We come to that conclusion after investigating the accidents for monts or years... the pilots have only seconds to decide... I will agree though there certain historical accidents have been human gross mistakes. about the airpseed. for this case, the plane sinking and low airpseed leaves no room to think that the airspeed indication is erroneously wrong.
66alex6699 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
A low airspeed display might also be symptomatic in rarer cases of obstructed pitot tubes or defective instruments...Thats why its imperative to stay calm and consider all options. Unfortunatly, still today, the majority of air accidents can be attributed to pilot errors...
armanys2003 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
If you are taking off with full throttles and the airplane starts loosing altitude, there is not much you can do, rather than to make sure that you have correct flap setting, and full throttle set and air brakes are not deployed. at that point when you also see that your airspeed is low, there is really not much to do but to lower the nose and panic/wait/hope/pray that the airspeed will come back before you reach the ground.
armanys2003 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I also can see why and how he could not dial the the frequency. It requires some precise finger movements and when you are stressed out it's not really easy to do. I would understand criticizing the pilot if he did something wrong or was ignoring some warnings, etc...
but when a pilot faces a phenomenon, that he doesn't have control over, you cannot blame them for panicking. One starts to panic when there are no actions left. |
