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Old March 5th 09, 05:34 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Radio altimeter fault triggered Turkish Airlines crash

In article ,
says...


Musicrab writes:

What's the Boeing 737-800 flight manual say about what to do when left and
right hand altimeters don't match?


It surely points out that working altimeters are required for an automated
approach. The airline flew with broken altimeters, and after tempting fate
several times, it finally caught up with them.


A bold and brazen statement, betraying unfortunately vast ignorance.
What, precisely, does the 737-800 manual say about automated apporaches and
about fate?

Turkish Airlines has the worst safety record of all airlines in Europe and the
U.S. combined, in terms of flights with fatalities over total flights. And it
trails by quite a margin.


In statistical terms, can we clarify the bizarre statement "worst
record...Europe and US combined...?" How, in mathematical terms, do you propose
to "combine" them. What is the arithmetic significance of this statement, in
the extremely charitable hypothesis that such exists?