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Old 03-21-2019, 08:03 AM
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Exclamation Its the control system

It is easy to blame the flight crew since the rules are always pinning responsibility to the Pilot in Command.

However, the stick and rudder days are over and there is no simple thing like puling the circuit breakers and disengaging the Auto pilot.

The aircraft of today are controlled by computer systems and the pilot merely tells the computers what to do. However any error that is not accounted for, causes the computers to send signals to the controls that sometimes doom the plane.

Think of it like riding a horse. Most of the time you send signals to the horse via the reigns, sounds and kicks and the horse obey your command. But there are times that the horse decides to do what he wants and that is where the wild ride occurs.

The real issue is why this happens to begin with on a brand new aircraft. Just because the sensors are bad should not cause wild fluctuations and oscillation in attitude. There needs to be an automatic disengage to let the pilots fly the plane.


Training is only a part of emergency procedure. It will not fix the real control problem the plane has. The pilots did not create this emergency situation.


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