We’re beginning to get a greater sense of what brought on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner to quickly descend over the South Pacific, injuring dozens (as flagged by reader David)…
Cockpit mishap behind LATAM Boeing 787 incident?
On Monday, a LATAM Boeing 787 flight from Sydney to Auckland made headlines, when the plane immediately quickly descended with out warning. The descent was so steep that some passengers hit the ceiling, inflicting widespread accidents.
Usually if a airplane enters a speedy descent that causes accidents, one would assume that this was a case of extreme clear air turbulence. Nonetheless, from the start, the airline was clear that this was as a consequence of a “technical downside.” Whereas I wouldn’t put an excessive amount of weight on this assertion, one passenger claimed that the pilot advised him that his “gauges simply blanked out, I misplaced all of my skill to fly the airplane.”
As you’d anticipate, that is resulting in an intensive investigation, and we’re beginning to get a way of why this may need occurred. The Air Present and The Wall Road Journal are reporting on the possible explanation for this incident, per investigators.
The main concept proper now could be that this occurred whereas a flight attendant was delivering a meal to the pilots. The flight attendant reportedly by accident hit a change on the pilot’s seat, main a motorized characteristic to push the pilot into the controls, and push down the airplane’s nostril. The change concerned right here has a canopy that isn’t supposed for use whereas the pilot is within the seat.
Boeing is anticipated to problem a memo associated to this cockpit seat change problem to 787 operators within the close to future.
What a wild clarification of this incident!
On the one hand, I suppose it’s reassuring that there didn’t appear to be a serious technical glitch for the plane, which may have greater implications for the Dreamliner fleet. Alternatively, the collection of occasions right here is sort of surprising — a flight attendant delivered a pilot a meal, by accident pushed a button, and this brought on the pilot to bodily stumble upon the management column, pushing the airplane’s nostril down?
If the button has a canopy and isn’t supposed for use whereas a pilot is within the seat, how precisely did it get pushed?
I suppose with so many Dreamliners flying for therefore a few years, there’s ultimately going to be some weird glitch, although I’m very curious what the investigation determines by way of the logistics of this incident.
Backside line
Earlier this week, a LATAM Boeing 787 entered a short however steep dive, injuring dozens. We knew the incident was as a consequence of some form of “technical glitch,” somewhat than extreme turbulence. Inside a number of days we’ve now realized the possible explanation for this — a flight attendant by accident pushed a button that moved the pilot’s seat into the flight controls, placing the airplane right into a steep descent.
What do you make of this clarification for the LATAM 787 incident?
