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Old 1st Dec 2014, 21:04
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PLovett
 
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I believe that, according to ICAO, loss of spatial orientation is now the favoured way of committing industrial level homicide in the airline transportation world having taken over from the former favoured way of CFIT.

Says something about the method we are teaching people to fly in IMC these days. In both the Kenyan and Ethiopian Airline crashes the CVR records the pilot flying (in both cases the captain) asking for the autopilot to be engaged. In the Kenyan case, and I believe also the Ethiopian one, it failed to engage due to control forces being too high at the time. With the Kenyan crash neither pilot had the wit to observe the MAP was still showing FD rather than AUTO as a near new 738 rolled over and into the mud. No-one was monitoring the flight instruments.

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