Radio altimeter fault triggered Turkish Airlines crash

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Robert M. Gary writes:

You are talking about standard altitude altimeters or RAs?

RAs. One of them had malfunctioned on several previous flights, according
to
the flight data recorders. The airline had not bothered to fix it, even
though it is essential for autoland (perhaps the airline expected its
pilots
to be alert and hard-working enough to fly landings by hand, although
that's
not really an excuse).

No plane is going to flare as a result of a reading from a
pressure altimeter.

But it probably will if the RA says that it's 7 feet below the runway.

What a dumb ass.

Mxsmanic wrote:
Robert M. Gary writes:

You are talking about standard altitude altimeters or RAs?

RAs. One of them had malfunctioned on several previous flights, according to
the flight data recorders. The airline had not bothered to fix it, even
though it is essential for autoland (perhaps the airline expected its pilots
to be alert and hard-working enough to fly landings by hand, although that's
not really an excuse).

Babble.

Where is your data on airline SOP with regard to doing an autoland all
the way to the ground?

Where is your data on the percentage of landings that do an autoland
all the way to the ground?


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writes:

Where is your data on airline SOP with regard to doing an autoland all
the way to the ground?

Every autoland is all the way to the ground.

On Mar 4, 8:21*pm, Mxsmanic wrote:

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.

Wrong.