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badflaps 09-07-2014 05:40 PM


Originally Posted by satpak77 (Post 1721731)
Most of us realize that nobody is "immune" to mistakes, and we stay on top of our game and stay sharp to minimize mistakes. PLENTY of "professional" pilots have made plenty of mistakes in the Flying 101 category. Landing at wrong airports, stalling on final, landing in the Everglades (three professionals in that cockpit) over a burned out bulb, some, amongst many, examples. FYI

There was a lot more to that story than the bulb.

Airhoss 09-07-2014 06:07 PM


Originally Posted by cardiomd (Post 1722135)
Was I on board that flight, hoss? ;)

From the cardiomd files - decompression on a US Air flight.

http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/ma...mpression.html

Thin air in back was quite noticable.

Nope wrong airline..

aviatorhi 09-07-2014 06:51 PM

I think just about everybody is missing the difference between expectations and results.

In my book:

I expect "Professional" pilots to fly to a certain standard, when they don't that's a problem.

I expect "Private" pilots to underperform, mostly due to lack of familiarity, when they perform to a higher standard that's a good thing.

Clear as mud?

In this case whoever was at the controls underperformed for any number of reasons, but at the end of the day they ended up dead. I pointed out a "slow" decompression as a possibility due to the amount of time involved in the scenario. For those who have had pressurization problems or slow decompressions you know what I mean when I say that there is a low of see sawing with a conversation that sounds like "looks like it's under control, oh, no, wait, it's going up again, try the other mode", and so on.

Airhoss 09-07-2014 07:02 PM

Cabin above 10,000 mask goes on PERIOD. That buys you some what if time.

cardiomd 09-07-2014 07:22 PM

The pilot's first quote is "we have an indication that is not correct in the plane" - if he felt that under no modes could the cabin altitude rise to dangerous levels, when a "Cab Press" alert came on he might have been lackadaisical about it, and simply thought the indication itself wasn't correct.

Being a brand new plane I think it had the G1000, like my plane, as the new TBMs seem to be fit with this system. Not sure how pressurization is managed through this as my plane is not pressurized - does it simply have a delta-P alert or if it displays actual cabin altitude.

I'm guessing he just got a delta-P alert, didn't realize the urgency (thought it was simply an indication not correct), and then was overcome with hypoxia. Shame he didn't wake up on the way down.

badflaps 09-07-2014 08:38 PM


Originally Posted by cardiomd (Post 1722239)
The pilot's first quote is "we have an indication that is not correct in the plane" - if he felt that under no modes could the cabin altitude rise to dangerous levels, when a "Cab Press" alert came on he might have been lackadaisical about it, and simply thought the indication itself wasn't correct.

Being a brand new plane I think it had the G1000, like my plane, as the new TBMs seem to be fit with this system. Not sure how pressurization is managed through this as my plane is not pressurized - does it simply have a delta-P alert or if it displays actual cabin altitude.

I'm guessing he just got a delta-P alert, didn't realize the urgency (thought it was simply an indication not correct), and then was overcome with hypoxia. Shame he didn't wake up on the way down.

He was probably frozelled by then.

satpak77 09-07-2014 08:43 PM


Originally Posted by badflaps (Post 1722183)
There was a lot more to that story than the bulb.

As there always is. However if "the bulb issue" [in fairness lets call it a landing gear indication issue] was never an issue, I argue that the accident would have never happened.

With that said, the NTSB said this

ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar 1 N310EA Everglades, FL



PROBABLE CAUSE: "The failure of the fight crew to monitor the flight instruments during the final 4 minutes of flight, and to detect an unexpected descent soon enough to prevent impact with the ground. Preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew's attention from the instruments and allowed the descent to go unnoticed."


aviatorhi 09-07-2014 08:56 PM

Which may have been related to automation addiction? I mean it always works perfectly, right?

badflaps 09-07-2014 08:57 PM


Originally Posted by satpak77 (Post 1722284)
As there always is. However if "the bulb issue" [in fairness lets call it a landing gear indication issue] was never an issue, I argue that the accident would have never happened.

With that said, the NTSB said this

ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar 1 N310EA Everglades, FL

I was out on the AR that night, they were having engine over temps and a bunch of other problems. I think they were just worn out. We landed, they went around... the rest we know.

badflaps 09-07-2014 09:01 PM


Originally Posted by aviatorhi (Post 1722289)
Which may have been related to automation addiction? I mean it always works perfectly, right?

The plane was brand new, nobody knew anything about "automatic." They were old school.


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