Air France pilots almost crash Boeing 777 during landing scare

[Kamaji]

Air France pilots almost crash Boeing 777 during landing scare

By Yaron Steinbuch
April 29, 2022

The pilots of an Air France flight from New York to Paris who struggled to control the plane before landing were engaged in a kind of tug-of-war – apparently unaware of each other’s inputs at the time, according to a report.

The Boeing 777 with 177 passengers onboard was cleared to land at Charles de Gaulle Airport on April 5 when an air-traffic controller heard the pilots struggling as an alarm blared in the background.

Dramatic audio captured one of the pilots exclaiming, “Stop! Stop!” and the captain told the tower the jetliner was “all over the place.”

In a preliminary report, France’s air-accident investigation agency said Thursday that the pilots “simultaneously made inputs on the controls” during the incident.

*  *  *

Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/04/29/air-france-pilots-almost-crash-boeing-777-at-charles-de-gaulle/

[Kamaji]

[mountaineer]

Pretty scary. The transatlantic pilots probably are the airline's most experienced.