Go Back  Airline Pilot Central Forums > Pilot Lounge > Hangar Talk
Pilots Jailed, For Praying During Emergency >

Pilots Jailed, For Praying During Emergency

Search

Notices
Hangar Talk For non-aviation-related discussion and aviation threads that don't belong elsewhere

Pilots Jailed, For Praying During Emergency

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
Old 03-24-2009, 08:44 PM
  #21  
Gets Weekends Off
 
Airhoss's Avatar
 
Joined APC: Apr 2008
Position: Sleeping in the black swan’s nest.
Posts: 5,725
Default

Originally Posted by Blueskies21
NewsDaily: Faulty altimeter played part in Turkish crash
On the same page... A radar altimeter malfunction causes a 737 AP to shutdown the engines? Does that really mean that it was on autoland or something and the AP idled the engines? Anyone know, or is this another case of the press being nuts?
The radar altimeter is the instrument the auto throttles use to know when to go to idle for landing. They had a radar altimeter failure which caused the auto throttles to go to idle way before they should have. All the pilots would have had to do was disconnect the auto throttles and push the power up manually. Or heck don't even disconnect them, simply push them up I've done it hundreds of times it takes almost no strength at all to override the auto throttles even when engaged.

I can't fathom how an experienced crew would let this happen to themselves. Unless there was something else gong on mechanically it is simply unbelievable.
Airhoss is offline  
Old 03-25-2009, 09:51 AM
  #22  
Gets Weekends Off
 
The Dude Abides's Avatar
 
Joined APC: Feb 2008
Position: FO
Posts: 214
Default

I can't find an article with the excerpt, but I read recently the crew did get distracted by something else and neither noticed the throttles were at idle. No excuse for proper situational awareness.

As to the other story, if you're a person of faith, great, couldn't care less.
But religion is no exscuse to be derelict from your responsibilities in the cockpit.
The Dude Abides is offline  
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
SWAjet
Regional
23
01-14-2010 07:19 AM
fit29
Major
31
05-28-2009 12:01 PM
7576FO
Major
94
04-05-2009 09:44 PM
forgot to bid
Major
15
11-25-2008 09:21 PM
Brown
Cargo
89
11-20-2008 07:20 PM

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



Your Privacy Choices