The Boeing Thread

[Thorgalaeg]

Yeah, the voice recording doesn't really prove whether it's the alleged culprit being asked, or if he asked his co-pilot the question to place blame away from himself.

I don't envy the investigators tasked with figuring it out. They'll have to investigate both pilots, their family situation, financials, medical history and so on with a microscope.

I think the first suspect should be the pilot monitoring, since the pilot handling is too busy keeping the aircraft on the path. Usually it is the first officer who handles the aircraft during taking off and landings to add hours to his logbook while the captain is monitoring. So I would investigate the captain first.

 

[bc1]

The turbofans had not completely stopped, yet, so one engine was starting to gain power, but it was too late.

Both engines N2 had gone below idle. Turning back on the engines took a full 10 seconds, from 08:08:42 to 08:08:52, that is a lot of time on an aircraft. Engines went through relight but it was way too late. Engine noise is such an obvious cue it's amazing the sane pilot took so long to react.

Engine cutoff during takeoff has happened before, check out the 1993 air inter incident where the captain blew a fuse and shut down both engines at ~4500´. Co-pilot turned the engines back on immediately, but captain shut them down again. Fortunately there was no stupid armored cockpit door at the time, so the stews were able to restrain the captain, unlike that fatefull germanwing flight were the cockpit door sucessfully resisted attempts to enter and sealed the flight's fate. The air inter A320 eventually recovered at ~1500ft, and the incident was carefully covered up at the time but there are records.