RE: Nature is pityless -- woman sucked out of plane.
April 19, 2018 at 4:04 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2018 at 4:10 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 19, 2018 at 3:56 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(April 19, 2018 at 3:35 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: If she could, she is qualified as any commercial passenger pilot needs to be. If she couldn't, she is a menace to aviation safety and has no business flying passengers.
Lionizing people for just being competent and meeting, but not exceeding, professional standards is insane.
I don't think this model of B737 is obligatory fly by wire. If she took the plane off autopilot, then she really was flying it, not just giving suggestions to the computer.
All modern aircraft are fly by wire. The Boeing aircraft (unlike Airbus) have retained the traditional yokes but they are simulated to make things "look and feel" like the hydraulic systems of yesteryear.
The particular engine that failed was manufactured in 1995. I assume that is how old the plane is as well.
Having fly by wire does not mean it is obligatory FBW. Older passenger aircraft models Re-designed for FBW during early FBW era remain aerodynamically stable and retain analogue flight control as backup capability. Also, Boeing aircraft have a different design philosophy from Airbus. Airbus gives FBW absolute veto over pilot decisions, while Boeing aircraft have pilot absolute veto over FBW. Both Boeing and Airbus aircraft have crashed with fatal results when the absolute veto authority was wrong and the pilot in the case of airbus, and the computer in the case of Boeing, was right.
So if she was flying the Boeing, even if FBW was engaged, she still could have crashed it, as Korean airline's hugely experienced pilot with 10000 hours did when he override the FBW on a 777.
