Sequence of Events in the Cockpit on Asiana Flight 214

Re:Sequence of Events in the Cockpit on Asiana Flight 214 by ars_technician on Saturday December 14, 2013 @08:45PM (#6907953)

I agree; however, the Air France incident you are referring to is when the airspeed indicator was locked due to a frozen pitot tube, wasn't it? That seems like a much less blatant failure on the part of the pilots.

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Re:Sequence of Events in the Cockpit on Asiana Flight 214 by md224 on Saturday December 14, 2013 @09:39PM (#6908106)

You may have already read this, but if not, this is an incredibly chilling reconstruction of the events leading up to that crash:

Key excerpt from halfway through:

"Another of the pitot tubes begins to function once more. The cockpit's avionics are now all functioning normally. The flight crew has all the information that they need to fly safely, and all the systems are fully functional. The problems that occur from this point forward are entirely due to human error."

Really tragic.

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Re:Sequence of Events in the Cockpit on Asiana Flight 214 by hatbert on Sunday December 15, 2013 @06:53PM (#6911693)

Right, but how does the cockpit crew know that they airspeed indicators are working correctly now? They don't.

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Re:Sequence of Events in the Cockpit on Asiana Flight 214 by wdr1 on Saturday December 14, 2013 @09:46PM (#6908131)

Popular Mechanics did a mesmerizing writeup of the Air France transcript. Worth a read:

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Re:Sequence of Events in the Cockpit on Asiana Flight 214 by mdavidn on Saturday December 14, 2013 @09:35PM (#6908097)

Read the report. The pitot tubes thawed after about one minute. Everything after was pilot error. After the high-altitutde stall, the pilot-in-control kept the angle of attack above 30 degrees.

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Re:Sequence of Events in the Cockpit on Asiana Flight 214 by maxcan on Sunday December 15, 2013 @02:17AM (#6908677)

All pilots are trained to recognize issues like a frozen pitot tube and there is a very simple solution - activate pitot heat and maintain level flight using your attitude indicator until your airspeed indicator starts working again.

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