Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts

Re:Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face... by ApolloFortyNine on Sunday January 25, 2026 @06:51PM (#46759957)

The stall voice alarm sounded 75 times, during this time the stick Shaker also was triggering (if both pilots had let go, or just the one who was ignoring the stall warning, the plane rights itself).

It's in the last column in the transcript I linked.

Imo the whole average input issue would have been it's own Boeing MCAS level issue if it happened a decade later, that's more of the root here imo, since one pilot making a mistake is hardly unheard of.

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Re:Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face... by kortilla on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @01:26AM (#46776199)

It doesn’t matter how many times it sounded. It matters that it stopped while still in a stall and began again during the process of recovering the stall.

When you’re panicking and the airplane is telling you what you’re doing is starting to cause a stall again, you tend to listen.

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