Originally Posted by
Sunnyjohn
I have a feeling I've read of similar situations over this part of Australia and there was a suggestion that high magnetic fields produced by the iron mines were affecting the controls. Anyone remember?
It happened over the Tasman Sea, for heaven's sake. About an hour before arriving in AKL. No iron ore mines there the last time I looked!
Pro pilots scan PPrune in the 24 hrs after rumours of an event, to quickly determine whether something did in fact happen.
A day or so afterwards the threads descend into nonsense and the pro pilots leave.
It's taken less than 24 hours this time!