Originally Posted by
jimjim1
you might want to read this -
A bored
RAF pilot flying nearly 200 service personnel to Afghanistan sent his passenger jet into a nosedive when a
camera he had been playing with
jammed the flight controls
A Royal Air Force pilot has been cleared of perjury – but will be sentenced at court martial today after admitting he allowed his digital camera to jam his military airliner’s controls, sending it into a 4,000ft plummet.
Flight Lieutenant Andrew Townshend was taking photos while flying an Airbus A330 Voyager from RAF Brize Norton to Afghanistan in 2014. The court martial heard he put his Nikon DSLR down between the armrest of his captain’s chair and the airliner’s main control stick, mounted on the side of the cockpit.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0...irbus_plummet/
It's on pprune somewhere. I'm sure it can be found easily enough. Injuries and I suspect quite a broken aeroplane but I can't recall about the latter.
Inquiry
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...-february-2014
Voyager Plummets (Merged)
Sounds like he could have done the same thing with a thick book, or a thermos of coffee (Or the NVG case that caused the C-130 crash in Afghanistan) Doesn't seem to be particularly relevant to the topic of discussion.
Last edited by A Squared; 28th Jun 2018 at 07:26.