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USB Stick May Have Contributed to Deadly Plane Crash
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BurningBeard
Charter Member
Does this mean that the writer of the trojan/mallware could be tried for murder?
Beard
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deathfromafar
Charter Member
This report is 100% nonsense. It was 100% pilot error that caused the fatal crash and a delay in a ACARS type datalink which reports aircraft faults & pilot mistakes to a central system at the airline HQ wouldn't have made any difference in the outcome. Why the flight crew went through the checklist flow calling the flaps/slats as being properly configured for takeoff when they clearly were not is beyond comprehension. Bigger question, why was the TOWS reset/or not properly working to alert the crew that the flaps/slats weren't deployed?
I know a few guys who were MADDOG Captains and FO's over the years and have learned a great deal about that plane from them. It's a Pilot's airplane if you fly it by the numbers. If you do not, it will bite you hard. I have rode in back and in the jump seat on a few MADDOG's(MD-80/83's) in Altitude Density Operations in South America many times and I can say from seeing it with my own eyes, if the plane is out of configuration, you're going to know it!
I know a few guys who were MADDOG Captains and FO's over the years and have learned a great deal about that plane from them. It's a Pilot's airplane if you fly it by the numbers. If you do not, it will bite you hard. I have rode in back and in the jump seat on a few MADDOG's(MD-80/83's) in Altitude Density Operations in South America many times and I can say from seeing it with my own eyes, if the plane is out of configuration, you're going to know it!
Roadburner440
Charter Member 2010
It truly does not make sense, and just seems like people are grabbing for excuses for the pilots error in this. Although their argument about the USB thumb drive is valid. They have been banned on military installations now for use in computers for a couple years now due to viruses and such being transmitted onto DOD computers from them. I do not think ACARS would have been able to get the alert to a dispatcher in time to radio for them to deploy flaps. The time delay for them to get the transmission to the bird, pilots to acknowledge, and the actual time for the flaps to deploy to the appropriate setting would have been to long. I am sure it was simply a complacency error. Which I know all to well myself. Once you've done the checklist however many hundreds/thousands of times you get comftorable and forget the dangers of not following it step by step. Luckily in my cases it has been stupid stuff as not turning on anti-collision beacons/nav lights. Could just as easily been something like this though. Is just a stark reminder of the dangers of aviation, and a reminder to the rest of us to follow the PCL's.