Remember a few years ago, Air France 447 crashed over the atlantic. There was a lot of hulabaloo about it because the crew could not identify that the pane was ina stall and applied the wrong corrective measures for 3.5 minutes while the plane fell 35,000 feet intothe ocean killing all aboard.
Here's another alarming story about pilot inability to understand how planes fly. Two pilots for Air India were suspended. They took off in a nearly new Airbus 320 AND FORGOT TO RAISE THE LANDING GEAR. Gear down make a lot of noise, and they make a lot of air drag that robs power like crazy which is why all airliners have retracting gear.. Whats worse is that they could not climb more than 24,000 feet to their assigned usual altitude of 35,000 feet and could not reach normal speed of 500 knots, unable to fly more than 230 knots. That apparently didn't bother them much. Finally they did notice that the normally fuel efficient Airbus 320 was nearly out of fuel only halfway to their destination and requested permission to make an emergency landing.
So how can they fly like that for 90 minutes and not figure it out?
Here's another alarming story about pilot inability to understand how planes fly. Two pilots for Air India were suspended. They took off in a nearly new Airbus 320 AND FORGOT TO RAISE THE LANDING GEAR. Gear down make a lot of noise, and they make a lot of air drag that robs power like crazy which is why all airliners have retracting gear.. Whats worse is that they could not climb more than 24,000 feet to their assigned usual altitude of 35,000 feet and could not reach normal speed of 500 knots, unable to fly more than 230 knots. That apparently didn't bother them much. Finally they did notice that the normally fuel efficient Airbus 320 was nearly out of fuel only halfway to their destination and requested permission to make an emergency landing.
So how can they fly like that for 90 minutes and not figure it out?
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