Start at the 4 minute mark here:
https://youtu.be/oUOn6FrDPwg?t=240
Infuriating series of events. It's not simply a matter of pilot error, it's criminal negligence.
https://youtu.be/oUOn6FrDPwg?t=240
Infuriating series of events. It's not simply a matter of pilot error, it's criminal negligence.
It's almost inconceivable that someone could screw up as badly as he did.
*As they did. 2 pilots, both ignored the warnings from the airplane, and the initial ones from the tower about approach speed and altitude.
I'd start at 4:50.
It's pretty damn silent for two guys who are about to smash an airplane into a residential area.
They are recorded.
(If you don't remember how to add the time, you can use https://youtubetime.com/ )
First thing I learnt on a flight sim: slow down or you can't extend gear.
Is the co-pilot allowed to smash the pilot in the face and take over when they realise they're ignoring basic instructions?
It takes explicit training to overcome a human tendency to defer, and that means training for all crew and especially cockpit crew. This is called Crew Resource Management and it involves learning interpersonal skills that enable the team to prevent individual human errors from having grave consequences.
CRM is most often important in the cockpit, in this example to get the pilot flying the plane to agree that this approach is bad and they need to try a fresh approach.
But CRM extends beyond the cockpit because in some incidents it's vital to remember that the rest of the crew are experts too, just not in flying a plane.
Colloquially we call all aviator people as “pilots” but technically the person on the left seat is Captain and to the right is First Officer/Pilot/Co-Pilot.
Like on marine vessels, the original idea is that the captain has the full authority to his ship and his first officer steers it under his order.
That extra hierarchy lead to several accidents so newer concepts such as PM/PF or CRM rules were conceived, but as far as terminologies go that’s what captain/officer stands for.
Time and workload permitting, ATC should inform aircraft of deviations. But most ATC, even in the US, are not pilots.
And ATC instructions are required to be followed except in an emergency, but "demand" is not the right word, as the captain is the final authority in civil flights.
> Is the co-pilot allowed to smash the pilot in the face
Well, that would be unusual, and doing it on final pretty hazardous. But in the Germanwings and probably MH370 accidents, that was the only option to avoid those accidents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
In small airplanes, instructors are prepared to override the rudder by evaluating how strong students are ("So, do you go to the gym?"), and purposefully focusing maximum force on the rudder controls.