Turkish Airlines denies earlier defectiveness of Radio Altimeters
- ( sorry, in Dutch again )
Turkish Airlines weerspreekt eerder defect - Trouw
Highlights (or lowlights, pick your preference) translated;
- TA announces no reports of failing radalts exist
- two radalts have been serviced as scheduled in july 2008
- One of the radalts failed at feb 5, but was repaired immediately
- a day after the crash TA have already told that there was a defective master caution light earlier, which was resolved more than 8 flights before it's last
Which makes me question:
Apparently ( assuming the black box didn't make things up ) the same error has occured twice, without anyone noticing !!!. Which may have been accidentally the FO being PF with manual landing and the CPT not watching the altimeter.
..and
Repairs are not carried out in such a way that it keeps working for a month.. Is that Technician's bad luck or lack of skill ?