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Flt 587-Airbus vs American Airlines
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/nyregion/21plane.html is a report of
the maneuvering by both Airbus and American Airlines to get in their 2 cents, pilot training vs inadequate design, in the crash of AA Flt 587 over Queens. Apparently the tail came off because of a violent yaw type of pilot induced oscillation. The range of rudder control available to the pilot seems grossly inadequate. AA may have contributed to the problem by failing to reflect the design flaw in their training, however their real failure might be not grounding the planes for suicidal instability. Pilots of the F86D had to accept working around a low altitude-high speed pilot induced oscillation. In that case the oscillations were in pitch. I could accept such on a military fighter plane, but such an accident waiting to happen in a commercial airliner seems unconscionable. John Bailey http://home.rochester.rr.com/jbxroads/mailto.html |
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