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Ethiopian airliner down in Africa

Old 10th Mar 2019, 16:24
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Originally Posted by AN2 Driver
That has been corrected.
The last transponder data were received from position N9.027 E39.153 about 21nm east of Addis Ababa at FL086. Terrain elevation at that point is 8130 feet MSL, FL086 reported by the Mode-S Altimeter (which always measures to standard pressure 1013 QNH) corrected for QNH indicates the aircraft was flying at 9027 feet MSL at that position.
Though it still isn't correct.

A pressure altitude of 8600' equates to approximately 9125' AMSL, so about 100' higher than the figure quoted by Avherald (they appear to have used the SL pressure lapse rate, which is greater than that at altitude).
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Old 10th Mar 2019, 16:36
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Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS). I wonder what the Augmentation word really refers to. Don't use software to correct design deficiencies. It is two too many for a new aircraft especially coming from this manufacturer. It might not be the case on this one but the bad wrap is already lasting too long to be put to rest. ... is monitoring closely the situation is becoming meaningless at this point.

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Old 10th Mar 2019, 16:37
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Originally Posted by Smythe
Looking at the crash site, there is virtually nothing left.

Compare this with the MH17 crash site, shot down from 33,000 feet.
That one fell in many many pieces,this one seems to have struck the ground like a missile in one piece at high speed,hence the substantial cratering...
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Old 10th Mar 2019, 16:43
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Three Boeing nose down crashes in a few month's...?!
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Old 10th Mar 2019, 16:44
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Here is the link to the video

Originally Posted by Seat4A
Global News (Canada) has video showing locals walking on the site of the wreckage.

Not enough posts to add the link here.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5040395/c...s-plane-crash/
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Old 10th Mar 2019, 16:46
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Originally Posted by Seat4A
Understood. Thank you.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5040395/c...s-plane-crash/
Another side to the story.
literally thousands of people walking around in the crash site looking at stuff, picking it up and walking on???
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Old 10th Mar 2019, 16:48
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It is sad to see a pik of the CEO demonstrating to the world what you should not do on a crash site! The site is the 'property' of the investigators (and maybe police) and the last people to be meddling with the wreckage are airline management. Surely he must know that!
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Old 10th Mar 2019, 16:53
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The MAX Crews are Informed:
AD 2018-23-51

RTFM....
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Old 10th Mar 2019, 16:59
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Originally Posted by SigWit
No, this is actually the modus operandi for all modern jets. Give the pilots basic background knowledge about the plane and an QRH that covers most failures.
Giving pilots to much information can lead to over-analysis and wrong decisionmaking.
You have to have the ashtray on the outside of a 747 lavatory door or else you have to lock the whole lav off for the entire flight as per the MEL. Lots of dumb anomalies exist everywhere. Now MCAS is being refereed to in here as a de facto stick pusher. Spose it is. That’s not a superfluous bit of info. Colgan Buffalo? Dynamic system that could mess you up if you didn’t know about it? Now a Certain plane maker likes you to know that fire loops contain Eutectic Salt. That is not worth the brain cells necessary to learn it. I only remember it as it’s such a dumb thing to know. What, is it from Eutectia? A trim thing, I think I’d like to know about.
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Old 10th Mar 2019, 16:59
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Originally Posted by IFixPlanes
The MAX Crews are Informed:
AD 2018-23-51

RTFM....
It only took one fatal accident . I feel this is not the thread for discussion or speculation about MCAS until further facts are known that might suggest it being involved. But please do not defend the design choice to use software to fix a bad design and leaving the crew flying the planes out of the loop intentionally until one falls from the sky.
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Old 10th Mar 2019, 17:02
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There was an extended discussion on PPRuNe about what pilots need to know - as opposed to what was commonly in the conversion course content - about the MAX's flight control system after the LionAir crash in October.

Asking anyone who flies the 737 Max: What, if any, guidance and training have you received since the LionAir accident regarding the potential issues that accompany an AoA sensor failure?
Why do I ask this?
A data point from a bit further up: the captain of this flight was recently qualified in this model (November). His previous experience was in other aircraft. (perhaps previous 737 models, that info will doubtless become available in due course).
Would his conversion training have had the benefit of what came to light after the LionAir accident, or, would that training course have been before the LionAir accident?
LionAir crash was in October of last year. As I understand the info provided, this Captain's qualification on the new model was in November of last year.
The question is of particular interest if a flight control anomaly was major hole in the layered slices of swiss cheese. (Another point made earlier was "on the ground three hours, no significant write ups" which is a significantly different case than LionAir's situation).
If the key cause(s) was(were) something else, it's still of interest in terms of how training and systems operations information is disseminated.

Information like this one: the FAA emergency airworthiness notice of 7 November 2018.

Given the recency of the LionAir accident, and that the FAA issued that to all owners and operators, then I'd expect all operators to have taken an active interest in making sure their flight crews were up to speed on this feature of the Max. Under that assumption (perhaps valid, perhaps faulty) air crews would have some awareness of what to do if that same problem cropped up. It being some months since that accident, would all operators have updated their SOPs, procedures, etc, given the seriousness of this particular malfunction at low altitude?

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Old 10th Mar 2019, 17:11
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How unaware people to say a CEO at the site is contaminating data instead of showing concern for passengers, employees, everybody. I see footage of the Lauda crash with Niki at the site as he had a great interest in the investigation and in fact if not for Niki the real problem may not have been uncovered as it was stated that reverser deployment in flight would not cause a crash. He forced it to the point where a test crew on a DC-8 determined a reverser deployment in flight is extremely serious and would in the case of a 767 unrecoverable. A CEO at a crash site is an important sign of a company commitment.
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Old 10th Mar 2019, 17:19
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After all of my career in SAR, It's absolutely "regular" to find non-authorized people on wreck sites...

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Old 10th Mar 2019, 17:22
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Originally Posted by J J Carter
It's absurd that flight telemetry and data is not transmitted in real time to satellites and sent back to the aircraft manufacturer.rather than being recorded on FDRs that are lost at sea or destroyed
It's being worked on.

https://aireon.com/

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Old 10th Mar 2019, 17:22
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Meanwhile, over at Wikipedia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiop...nes_Flight_302
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Old 10th Mar 2019, 17:30
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All this trashing of Boeing's incorporation of software using AOT sensor input to prevent a stall being a bad design - does it take into account the A320 Roussillan crash in which improper maintenance of the AOT sensors provided bad data to the software from which the crew was unable to resolve the problem and crashed. Although the Lion Air investigation is not yet complete people are now ready to ground the MAX and change a solution that involved AOT sensor input through software to avert an accident. I assume their grounding will involve Airbus as they also use AOT sensor input to prevent stalls. Have we reverted to the DC-10 times of grounding a plane destroying a company only to find that a maintenance base used an unauthorized procedure that resulted in carnage. Maybe there is an inherent problem but I've never seen a such a crowd of "shoot first and ask questions later" people. And yes, I do own Boeing stock but I also am invested in Airbus.
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Old 10th Mar 2019, 17:34
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Flight profile from runway to last captured ADS-B point:



Altitudes AGL are shown to scale, corrected for QNH, although I can't vouch for the accuracy of GE's terrain elevations.
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Old 10th Mar 2019, 17:39
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Yep. The CEO should be there. But tinkering with the wreckage? Nobody should be touching anything apart from the investigators.

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Old 10th Mar 2019, 17:40
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Originally Posted by Lonewolf_50
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A data point from a bit further up: the captain of this flight was recently qualified in this model (November). His previous experience was in other aircraft. (perhaps previous 737 models, that info will doubtless become available in due course).
Would his conversion training have had the benefit of what came to light after the LionAir accident, or, would that training course have been before the LionAir accident?
That was kind of where I was headed. But, the Max is now in Comet territory I'm afraid. Waiting another 6 months until another augers in should not be an option - again making no assumptions as to cause.

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Old 10th Mar 2019, 17:41
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NWA SLF Read the AD. Loss/malfunction of a SINGLE AOA sensor can result in nose down trim input being automatically applied. The fact that there’s an automated system producing flight control input is in contravention to the fundamental operating philosophy of Boeing aircraft, and it has consequentially and not surprisingly caught out the crews. It is also now evident that the MCAS system (implemented due to a certification requirement for pitch stability during high power applications like G/As) appears to have been written in a bit of a hurry, without taking the usual redundancy philosophy into account.

We don’t know whether that was a factor in this accident until FDR/CVR are located and analysed.

Airbus operating philosophy is very different, and has been proven in the past to not do anything stupid to the aircraft unless a) multiple sensor inputs have been disabled/crippled, and b) pilots do stupid stuff like resetting flight stability essential computers in-flight by getting out of their seat and pulling CBs on maintenance panels meant for ground and engineering use only.


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