A former Boeing 777 foreign captain at Asiana told investigators he found it "extremely difficult" to get pilots to fly visual approaches, and that they usually wanted to take off rather than land.

Priceless!!!!

I thought we might stall, spin, crash burn and died. We did not.

Don't worry. Maybe next time.

They were so close to stall, spin, fall, crash, burn, did died. I blame Per. :twisted: At a height of 3,250ft during approach to Kittila runway 34 – with its autothrust and autopilot engaged – the aircraft’s began to pitch up in line with a nose-up trim actuation. To counter the resulting loss of ai...

From what I've heard (not a great deal) it sounds like it might be another "stall! pull up!" ... which would be horribly depressing.

I suspect this is not the case this time.

Video of the crash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKHpUEHY2tI

At 6' 4", I want that seat pitch.

The relevant approach plate is on page 5. http://www.cyberair-yssy.com/NZQNALL.pdf That one is dated. This is the current one from the CAA's AIP web page. http://www.aip.net.nz/pdf/NZQN_45.1_45.2.pdf Anyway, in the video they seem to come from the South because they make a large rght-hand turn to e...

Surprised they never found a niche operating around the Southern Ocean. LAN Chile are keeping 3 just for SCL AKL SYD Aerolíneas Argentinas operates 11 A340 (4 -200 and 7 -300) and there are two -300 more on its way. While they do the trans-Antarctica route to SYD, they also do all the long-haul fli...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZArusuuQrc

Bah! Little power, no fuel, and not an ounce of meet in those blenders.

Better try this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDlMLqdvHzI

I don't know about the ATIS, but the NTSB reported that runway 06/24 was closed at the time of the accident for maintenance of runway center line lights. I know exactly what the NTSB reported, thanks. So you were asking if runway 24 was closed or not just for the sports of it? Or you doubt about th...

Gabriel: what's the average descent rate in the final segment of that chart? it looks to me like around 1200 fpm (based on losing a bit under 150 feet in the last 7 seconds)... which is kind of high. That's trying to get too much information from the little data we have. The "flight profile&qu...

1. Firstly, I would like to know what the ATIS report was at the time of their arrival, specifically with regards to runways. 2. If Rwy 24 was available, whose idea was Rwy 18? Approach controller's or the crew's? I don't know about the ATIS, but the NTSB reported that runway 06/24 was closed at th...

To sumarize some facts, as disclosed by the NTSB: The first point of impact was 0.8 NM before the RWY 18 threshold, along the extended centerline. 7 seconds before impact there was a "sink rate, sink rate" GPWS warning. 4 seconds before impact one of the pilots called "Runway in sight...

USA Today... "journalism" doesn't really play a role.

Point made.

It is a valid spelling on the other side of the pond. Well, that depends on which side you are. It's an USA Today article, so I guess it's from "this" side, not "the other" one. Yet, my final comment was just a joke, the reason for that sentence NOT being a good piece of journal...

The best line of the article: In a case of very unfortunate timing, travellers signed up to a Qantas mailing list reported receiving an email on Friday morning advertising discounted flights to Santiago. That's professional journalism, right? Everybody knows that "traveler" takes one L, no...

Do we need another thread JUST for this topic? Look at the systematic failure and swiss cheese aspects. It's flamingly clear that it's a joke- but no one detects it until it's too late. Someone cracks a joke (maybe sends a fake news release to a coworker). The news release propagates and winds up g...

I'm going to bet this fire was in the aft galley and didn't involve Li batteries.

I'm going to hope that too.

Captain: Sum Ting Wong FO: Wi Tu Lo Off duty jumpseat: Ho Lee Fuk Off duty cabin: Bang Ding Ow ...and the beautiful part is that some of this post is 100% true.... Linky: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/epic-ktvu-fail-anchor-reports-pilot-names-including-sum-ting-wong-and-wi-tu-lo_b97368 And Youtu...

What a piece of sh!t this idiot is?

A very rich and wealthy one.

Seems impossible that he didn't realise what was going on at all. This is going to be a classic... How in the hell did they make such a glaring error? I believe the answer is old fashioned comfort and complacency and that this is a hugely insidious crash...you've landed a big airliner a zillion tim...

Also, according to Asiana, among the types that he flew to SFO was the 747.
So it's not like he had 9700 hours in a King Air and suddenly jumped to a 777 Captain position.

So, my guess (c'mon, we need a lot of opinions and especulations to make this page go back to life) is that this pilots were very comfortable with the automatization of the airplane, and not used to land it manually, without the ILS. So, they noticed too late that they were short, low and slow, and...

I Heard This Guy Only Had 43 Hours On The Plane!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What A Idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, at some point, every pilot had 43 hours in each type where they eventually accumulated 43 hours or more.

I particularly like the bit that stated the "pilot regained control...". That would infer control was lost... Well yeah control was lost...the asymetric thrust caused one of the main gears to go all the way over and onto the centerline! :shock: Since when is an Airbus pilot "in contr...