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Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash
« on: March 20, 2019, 08:38:42 am »
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Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash
Alan Levin and Harry Suhartono

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.

The next day, under command of a different crew facing what investigators said was an identical malfunction, the jetliner crashed into the Java Sea killing all 189 aboard.

The previously undisclosed detail on the earlier Lion Air flight represents a new clue in the mystery of how some 737 Max pilots faced with the malfunction have been able to avert disaster while the others lost control of their planes and crashed. The presence of a third pilot in the cockpit wasn’t contained in Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee’s Nov. 28 report on the crash and hasn’t previously been reported.

Read more at: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pilot-who-hitched-a-ride-saved-lion-air-737-day-before-deadly-crash/ar-BBUZ0aM
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Re: Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2019, 08:40:11 am »
This is some problem if this story is so. "Oh, know, let's keep flying on these 737 Max 8s".
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Re: Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2019, 09:12:41 am »
Quote from: TomSea on March 20, 2019, 08:40:11 am
This is some problem if this story is so. "Oh, know, let's keep flying on these 737 Max 8s".
If that plane had malfunctioned the day before, why was it flying?
Why wasn't it being inspected?
Too much trust in automatic systems.
Sounds like part of the problem is in not training pilots to deal with the malfunction (how to take control of the aircraft from the automatic systems).

Since the Wright Brothers people have known that sh*t happens with aircraft, and likely the balloonists knew it even before then...
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Re: Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2019, 06:12:24 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 20, 2019, 09:12:41 am
If that plane had malfunctioned the day before, why was it flying?
Why wasn't it being inspected?
I heard that the pilots on that day didn't submit a thorough report of what happened, so perhaps the airline didn't appreciate the seriousness of the problem.
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