Posted on 07/07/2013 1:20:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
CAMARILLO (CBSLA.com) Investigators were immediately dispatched to San Francisco to try to determine what caused the crash of Asiana flight 214.
KCAL9′s Cristy Fajardo spoke to one of the nations leading aviation experts for insight into the crash.
Fajardo spoke to pilot and author Barry Schiff and asked his opinion on what might be the likely cause, or causes, of the deadly accident.
To the average person, the runway is now filled with pieces of twisted and burned metal. To Schiff, he sees pieces of a puzzle. He listened to numerous witness accounts and looked at images of the twisted wreckage.
Schiff believes he already has a bead on what went wrong. In all probability, he says, this is a classic case of pilot error.
He believes the pilot knew the landing wasnt feeling right.
The pilot undoubtedly knew and recognized he was too low and he was going too slow and he tried to correct at the last minute but the corrective action he took was too late and too late, says Schiff.
The pilot was landing in clear skies. The airports Instrument Landing System was reportedly down and he also believes this was a factor.
Pilots have to make whats called a visual approach, they have to look at the runway and judge their descent and land accordingly. Thats what people were doing all day long today. But these pilots did not do it properly. They landed short.
On a clear day, a visual approach should not have been a problem especially for an experienced pilot, said Schiff.
Schiff says pilots rely too much on using the instrument landing system.
Pilots have become accustomed over the years to using the instrument landing system, and pilots are developing what is called Automation Complacency, says Schiff, They arent as good in some cases at making manual landings, compared to the automated kind and this might be that case.
Schiff wants to emphasize that he is making educated guesses and says, in time, we will know exactly what actually happened.
The National Transportation Safety Board will comb through all the wreckage and evidence, study the black box recordings before making a final determination as to the cause and Schiff says that is the way it should be.
She's a fool, and talks to everyone like they are fools.
From what I can gather it sounds like their approach speed was to low and either it stalled, or the crew attempted to go full throtle and pull up, which lead to a stall.
I can see why witnesses said cartwheel now.
BTW, Hersman is a registered rat. I figured that's why she is speaking to everyone like they are all stupid. It just gets on my nerves, that's all.
Check out her profile on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Hersman
For some reason the CNN video doesn’t play for me. Here’s the video on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEDZerwU7uE
Classic situational awareness issues, along with the Asian Never-question-the-captain thing, I now believe.
If you can’t land an aircraft without electronic aids under almost perfect conditions, on a straight-in approach, with no wind issues, you don’t belong in the cockpit.
Something distracted the crew. IMHO, they’ll find they were buried in the tech, (it has happened before) and didn’t notice the problem until it was too late.
You can fix a lot of things, but you just can’t fix the human issues.
They also have the PAPI lights. I know the pilots are busy in the cockpit, but I wonder if they paid any attention to them? An accident is not usually caused by one thing, but by a whole chain of events.
PAPI was also out according to several reports
yeah at first I never believed that it cartwheeled but now I see why many believed that it did..basically from that press conference that the pilot was a moron, this was pilot error, he wanted increased speed even though he was so low to the ground
Maybe she is going slow for people who don’t speak English as their first language?
It that’s no the reason, then it is just plain insulting.
If you have ever seen video of the United 232 crash, it also appears to cartwheel, but that was just part of the plane that broke off the fuselage.
WOW!
Ping to actual crash footage:
I see. I did not know that. I was an air traffic controller for 20 years, so I saw my share of aircraft on final. We had VASI lights, but they are not much different from PAPI. I would not be surprised to see the FAA require that either VASI/PAPI or ILS glide slope be operational at all times. We shall see. Thanks for the info.
watchin the fireman’s procession home
http://www.kpho.com/category/224303/kphocom-local-live-streaming
The fuselage stayed mostly intact, though I have no idea how. That saved HUNDREDS of lives.
A case of premature de-elevation.
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