Air Crash Investigations TV. Ethiopean Airlines loss of control on night departure
TV Channel 7Two in Melbourne Tuesday 25 March 9.30pm.
This crash was the archetypal lack manual flying skills versus automation dependency - a subject frequently discussed over recent years in Pprune. The 737 departs on an uncomplicated SID at night over water. The captain gets disorientated, the co-pilot is no help at all, the aircraft eventually stalls and spirals into the sea off the cost of Lebanon with the crew not having a clue how to recover. If ever this was proof that manual raw data flying skills are vital for airline pilots, then see this particular Air Crash Investigation.
Having said that, although I have read the original accident report, there is no guarantee the accident depicted in this TV series, is a faithful reproduction of what really happened in the cockpit. Expect the usual screaming passengers of course.