flyboy2
17th Feb 2007, 14:57
Can one believe this?
2007-2-17 14:50
Moscow - A pilot-in-training who failed to maintain a Russian passenger jet's speed was partly to blame for the jet slamming into a Ukrainian field last year, killing all 170 on board, a Russian transport commission said on Saturday.
The Pulkovo Airlines Tu-154 was returning to St Petersburg from the Black Sea when it went down near the southeastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
Its crew had sent distress signals as a storm raged in the area.
The Interstate Aviation Committee said in a report that the pilots were inadequately prepared for flying in the stormy conditions and could not manoeuvre the plane through the storm.
The commission also said that the training instructions for the plane contained no appropriate guidance for flying under the conditions.
Alexei Morozov, an investigator for the commission, said a pilot-in-training was at the controls at the time of the incident and the more experienced pilot had not assisted him.
"A lack of control over the aircraft's speed was one of the factors that led to the catastrophic situation and it was the second pilot who was responsible for overseeing (this)," Morozov said in televised comments.
The aging model Tu-134 and Tu-154 aircraft would be phased out of civilian use in the next five years, transport minister Igor Levitin was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.
The crash was one of three major air disasters involving a Russian airline or airport in 2006.
Source:- http://www.24.com/news/?p=tsa&i=423410
2007-2-17 14:50
Moscow - A pilot-in-training who failed to maintain a Russian passenger jet's speed was partly to blame for the jet slamming into a Ukrainian field last year, killing all 170 on board, a Russian transport commission said on Saturday.
The Pulkovo Airlines Tu-154 was returning to St Petersburg from the Black Sea when it went down near the southeastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
Its crew had sent distress signals as a storm raged in the area.
The Interstate Aviation Committee said in a report that the pilots were inadequately prepared for flying in the stormy conditions and could not manoeuvre the plane through the storm.
The commission also said that the training instructions for the plane contained no appropriate guidance for flying under the conditions.
Alexei Morozov, an investigator for the commission, said a pilot-in-training was at the controls at the time of the incident and the more experienced pilot had not assisted him.
"A lack of control over the aircraft's speed was one of the factors that led to the catastrophic situation and it was the second pilot who was responsible for overseeing (this)," Morozov said in televised comments.
The aging model Tu-134 and Tu-154 aircraft would be phased out of civilian use in the next five years, transport minister Igor Levitin was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.
The crash was one of three major air disasters involving a Russian airline or airport in 2006.
Source:- http://www.24.com/news/?p=tsa&i=423410