737-8 max plane goes down (2018) - new not Max crash Indonesia

[Indaparkside]

As you can see, I don’t know enough. I don’t think anyone does yet.

I bet Colombo could solve it if he was around

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

The Chinese investigation authority will be just as keen for it not to be a pilot or maintenance issue, so a healthy tension should ensure an accurate conclusion to the investigation.
Looking at the flight log, it went from 29000 feet to zero in just 3 minutes which doesn't sound like pilot error. Much more likely it was a mechanical failure or the pilot did it deliberately.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/mu5735#2b367bc1
A normal rate of descent is 2000-3000 feet per minute. This was more like 10000 feet per minute which is even more than an emergency descent rate that would be used in the event of the loss of cabin pressure. That increased to nearly 20,000 feet per minute in the 20 seconds before impact. It suggests the pilot was not controlling the aircraft because even a controlled descent with both engines failed would be a much less steep descent than that.

Terrible way for people to lose their lives. Those last few minutes must have been truly awful.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Jesus I just saw the video. The plane beelines straight for the ground a vertical decent. Cant begin to imagine the horror of being on that

Its shocking isn't it.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

I bet Colombo could solve it if he was around

“Oh, one more thing…”

 

[cleavers]

As you can see, I don’t know enough. I don’t think anyone does yet.

At least you have the perspective of knowing about it being a pilot, whilst the majority on here are just "passengers". I've been interested in aviation since I was a kid, and have worked pretty much all of my working life in things related to aviation, at numerous airports, and military bases, but the input in a thread like this, as a pilot, is much appreciated.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

At least you have the perspective of knowing about it being a pilot, whilst the majority on here are just "passengers". I've been interested in aviation since I was a kid, and have worked pretty much all of my working life in things related to aviation, at numerous airports, and military bases, but the input in a thread like this, as a pilot, is much appreciated.

Cheers.

Of course, I hope people understand that also means I have to be very judicious in what I say.

 

[cleavers]

Cheers.

Of course, I hope people understand that also means I have to be very judicious in what I say.

I'm sure they do, and for the same reason in other threads I'm the same, I hear things, and see things I have to avoid talking about.

I'm quite interested in what caused this crash, as there are things from the data, that just don't add up for me.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

What g were you being subject to when you were typing “repeatedly”?

Passenger seat of a Ford Ranger on CA Highway 14 ;-)

 

[ChicagoBlue]

We should learn more about this crash in short order, depending upon how tightly held the information is kept by the Chinese, as the CVR (Cockpit Voice Recorder) has been found and shipped to Beijing for analysis.

The DATA Recorder has yet to be found, but will be vital to fully understand what happened, unless the pilots explicitly announce the problem on the CVR.

 

[manimanc]

I'm thinking the pilot did it on purpose.

It's a straight nose dive into the ground, surely if the plane was out of control it would be a bit more levelled out?