Monday, July 08, 2013

Actual Footage of the South Korean Boeing 777 Crash

5 comments:

Nicoenarg said...

This was a crash waiting to happen.

Usually airlines, for long distance flights, ask for a minimum of 1500 flight hours for anyone to be able to sit in the captain's seat.

The pilot in the captain's seat for this flight had a whopping 43 flight hours...

This airline should be shut down until they can figure out who the hell was the dumb idiot playing with people's lives.

Pastorius said...

Really? You think this was pilot error?

Wow.

If that's true, it is embarrassing, horrific pilot error.

Christine said...

There is no doubt this was pilot error.

Came in too low, too slow and too close to the wall.

43 hrs flying this plane and had never flown to this airport.

Very embarrassing. Not to mention the fact that the co pilot was obviously useless.

This airline has some serious rethinking to do.

Nicoenarg said...

777 is a pretty safe plane so I do think it was pilot error, especially after learning how experienced the pilot was.

If this happened in the airline I worked for I would have refused to fly with a rookie pilot who was going to be in the captain's seat either the whole way or part of the way. This is suicide.

The airline I worked for asked for a minimum of 5000 flight hours for anyone to be in command of a 777.

It is quite possible that the pilot did everything right and it was something wrong with the aircraft but it still tells me about the carelessness of this airline and I would personally never fly with this airline.

Pastorius said...

I heard some pilots call in to a radio show this morning and talk about it. They said it was pretty clearly pilot error, and they basically said the same thing Christine said. There was also some more technical stuff I did not understand about some maneuver having not been deployed until a second or two before some other thing happens, and how it ought to have happened about 10-15 seconds out.