PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - TAM A320 crash at Congonhas, Brazil
View Single Post
Old 19th Aug 2007, 18:10
  #1827 (permalink)  
TopBunk
 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: on the golf course (Covid permitting)
Posts: 2,131
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
PBL

You can wrap it up any way that you wish, and yes there will be lessons learnt that will feed back into:
  • manufacturers design considerations,
  • airport operators/federal bodies requirements,
  • operators/manufacturers limitations/operating procedures and indeed into
  • recurrent training and information dissemination requirements
but at the end of the day, whatever we do to try to stop another accident like this happening in future, which is what we need now to do, in my view it is becoming indisputable that the first/primary/root cause of the problem in getting the aircraft stopped on the paved surface was the failure to reduce the forward thrust by the inaction of the crew to retard the thrust levers, which everyone surely must agree is learnt in basic training?

FI: on my fleet we are just completing recurrent training involving late go-arounds / balked landings (before reverse selection) / etc - and very rewarding it was too.
TopBunk is offline