For comparison purposes, the reference (or "ghost") airplane is flying slower than it should have been. At the proper airspeed, it would have moved quickly past 214. I would have liked to have seen the video start further out, as it may have shown that 214 was well above the glide path.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Where Asiana 214 Should Have Been
For comparison purposes, the reference (or "ghost") airplane is flying slower than it should have been. At the proper airspeed, it would have moved quickly past 214. I would have liked to have seen the video start further out, as it may have shown that 214 was well above the glide path.
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The pilot reported being blinded by a bright light, which reminded me of a thriller I read wherein the CIA caused the crash of an air freighter by doing just that. And didn't you advocate hanging numbskulls pointing lasers at aircraft? Just wanted to throw this out in case you were suffering from a shortage of conspiracy theories.
Yes, we already covered the "blinded by a bright light" bit. The plane was already too low and too slow to land safely at the time he reports that, even if he'd spun the engines up to 100% at that point they wouldn't have spun up in time to get him down safely.
Besides, there were three pilots in the cockpit. Three. Two of whom were at controls capable of landing the plane. Procedure is that if the pilot becomes disabled, he asks the copilot to take over. No such thing happened.
2nd very similar event at SFO 7/25/13
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/07/30/1325222/second-sfo-disaster-avoided-seconds-before-crash
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