Alaska accident

[GrayHorizonsHeli]

https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Alaska-Air-National-Guard-joins-search-for-3-people-missing-near-Yakutat-494719861.html

new aircraft on ferry flight

word on the street was auto pilot malfunction.

[212man]

word on the street was auto pilot malfunction.

baeed on what? A 14 year old boy’s account?

[GrayHorizonsHeli]

Apparently he was unconcious for some time and remembers little to nothing.
so i can assume theres more info than that apparent to the NTSB

but hey, whatever. We are on the rumor network, let the armchair quarterbacks call the plays.

[212man]

Obviously an Airbus so probably an AH125 or 130. AP failure seems an unlikely first thought.

[finalchecksplease]

if it is a brand new Airbus it should be fitted with the Vision 1000, this should help with the investigation.

[SASless]

That is an interesting area to fly....weather can be really bad....lots of fog, wind, rain, snow, and rugged terrain.

I made one Ferry Flight from Deadhorse in Alaska to Southern California routing down the coast....once.

After that I always took the inland route via the Trench or AlCan highway.


FAA shows it to be a 350B3.

[Glacier pilot]

NTSB prelim on monthly list 09/29 N970PL.
CEN18FA391
Unable to post URL

[skadi]

Here is the link

http://metroforensics.********.com/2018_10_12_archive.html

skadi

[Newforest2]

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=215829

One passenger recovered, full details of accident.

[Non-PC Plod]

Sounds quite bizarre. Unless it was a runaway up on the engine, I cant think why you would want to roll off the throttle whilst leaving the collective where it was. Any thoughts..?