Aeroflot B737 Down near Perm - Page 11

dicksorchard · 8th February 2010, 18:19

As a very regular pax can someone explain to me briefly in Laymans language exactly what happened in relation to the cause of crash ?

I read the cockpit transcript and watched the you tube video and it frightened the crapout of me ! I sometimes have to fly Aeroflot . so you can understand my concern .

lomapaseo · 8th February 2010, 20:39

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As a very regular pax can someone explain to me briefly in Laymans language exactly what happened in relation to the cause of crash ?

I read the cockpit transcript and watched the you tube video and it frightened the crapout of me ! I sometimes have to fly Aeroflot . so you can understand my concern .

I thought that the following post by

Vovachan below was sucinct enough. If you want to lessen your concern than you would have to delve much deeper into the corrective actions recommended by the investigating agency, if any, and the addressing of these concerns by the operator

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due to pilot shortage those guys were quickly re-trained so they were marginally proficient on the Boeing. Plus they were confused abt navigation, one was inebriated, the plane was listing to one side. They were used to an easier workload in a 4 man cockpit, so they just couldn't handle it IMO.

vovachan · 8th February 2010, 22:31

To this I might add that the crashed flight even though it nominally flew under the Aeroflot flag was operated by a smaller regional co.

My concern is with the massive retirement of their legacy Soviet fleets in recent years replaced with Airbuses and Boeings, where do the Russians get the qualified ppl to fly them???

SaturnV · 15th March 2010, 22:32

Russia's Prosecutor General's Office declares that the pilot flying was intoxicated, and became disoriented.

Alcohol Cited in 2008 Russian Crash - NYTimes.com

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