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Pilot in jump seat saved Lion Air flight day before crash
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 2:13 pm
by ScudRunner-d95
Re: Pilot in jump seat saved Lion Air flight day before crash
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:59 pm
by Colonel
It’s nice to have one knowledgeable pilot up front.
Re: Pilot in jump seat saved Lion Air flight day before crash
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:25 am
by ScudRunner-d95
Ya I can't wait for single pilot airliners.
And the wife questions why I want my own Cessna 340 to fly us around in, next time we go somewhere on a regional ill point out the kids taking selfies up front for instagram.
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Re: Pilot in jump seat saved Lion Air flight day before crash
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 5:37 am
by Colonel
C340 max gross weight is advisory.
Re: Pilot in jump seat saved Lion Air flight day before crash
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:53 pm
by Slick Goodlin
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As the Lion Air crew fought to control their diving Boeing Co. 737 Max 8, they got help from an unexpected source: an off-duty pilot who happened to be riding in the cockpit.
That extra pilot, who was seated in the cockpit jumpseat, correctly diagnosed the problem and told the crew how to disable a malfunctioning flight-control system and save the plane, according to two people familiar with Indonesia’s investigation.[/quote]
I wonder what happened after that. Was it reported with any urgency? "Something happened and the two people you're paying to not screw up had no idea what to do," makes for an interesting call to the chief pilot. but a necessary one.
Re: Pilot in jump seat saved Lion Air flight day before crash
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 2:57 pm
by Colonel
There once was a company called Boeing, but no one remembers that.
There once was an airplane called the 707, but no one remembers that.
Boeing once had a chief test pilot by the name of Tex Johnston, but no one remembers that.
Boeing shipped the 707 with a nasty divergent dutch roll oscillation requiring a tiny
bit of stick and rudder ability to recover from, but no one remembers that.
Tex Johnston was once a pax in the back of a 707 that started to dutch roll, and he ran
forward and grabbed the control column from the four bars and recovered, but no one remembers that.
Tex Johnston went to the Boeing board of directors and said that the 707 had fatal handling
characteristics and needed to be fixed with additional aft fin, but no one remembers that.
Tex Johnston was right, and was fired for doing the right thing, but no one remembers that.
What are the Kardashians up to, today? Everyone remembers what they do, because they're important.
Fucking history keeps repeating itself, over and over and over and over and over again.