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Re: Another Airbus down ....

Brian Morrison wrote:
> Des Kinvig wrote:
>> "Yeti" <yeti@ayrshore.com> wrote in message
>> news:h2fprb$j7c$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>>> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:40:34 +0100, "Jim GM4DHJ ...at home"
>>>> <jim.gm4dhj@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I remember the papers saying everybody on the flight deck was too
busy
>>>>> laughing at "farting noises" to realise he was having a
massive heart
>>>>> attack ..that was the "distraction" in the article
>>> I don't recall any such noises mentioned in the AAIB's reports, or in the
>>> book "Papa India".
>> you mean I heard that in 1972 and now I am confabulating ? ... :~)) I
>> couldn't make it up...so what WAS the distraction then ???? .....
>
> Stanley Key was dying, dead or totally incapacitated, the various alarms
> were clanging and hooting and beeping and were not cancelled, and the
> aircraft was pitched up so that the crew could not see the approaching
> ground.
>
> They also had a variety of similar warning lights illuminated that meant
> different things but were close to each other, one was the stick pusher
> pneumatic low pressure warning that was close to the droop out of
> position light, both were amber. The valve controlling the stick push
> compressed air was out of alignment and at some point the low pressure
> warning illuminated, it might have caused the very inexperienced P2 to
> select droops up because the lever was not aligned with the flap lever
> after flap retraction.
>
> But no one knows now or will ever know. The only four people who might
> have known all died in the cockpit.
>

True - thank god for Cockpit Voice Recorders, else we'd never know what
happened in half these accidents nowadays.

Incidentally, I noticed that it's against Canadian Law for them to
release the CVR recording from any crashes that occur in Canada. How
bizarre.

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