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Post by Jaga on Jul 6, 2013 17:29:38 GMT -7
Did you hear about today airplane crash? Korean airlines had one of the worst safety records mainly due to the cultural attitudes. I read about it long before today accident. The co-pilot does not correct the pilot error because.... this is rude..... This reminds me an accident in Smolensk of Polish presidential airplane in bad weather where pilots were under the stress that they had to deliver.....their last words according to the record of black box were really bad. Example #1 (during landing): A Korean Air plane flying from Korea to Guam was going through bad weather and stormy clouds. The captain had committed the plane to visual landing, which meant that he had to be able to see the airport runway. Here is some of the conversation among the pilots. Pay close attention to a couple of comments from the supporting crew to the captain and to how the captain responds to them, or doesn’t: First officer: Do you think it rains more in this area? Captain: (silence) Flight engineer: Captain, the weather radar has helped us a lot. Captain: Yes. They are very useful. What the first officer is trying to do is warn the pilot that it may not be safe to do a visual approach without a backup plan for landing, in case the runway is not visible. Such communication of hinting from first officer to pilot is not uncommon in Korean culture. However, driven by respect to authority and fear of upsetting their superior, the co-pilots ultimately contributed to the plane crash as they allowed the pilot to start a visual landing without an alternative. Example #2 The 2nd example of inadequate communication between the first officer and the pilot is illustrated by the two pilots of an Air Florida plane in 1982. Here is some of the chat in the cockpit prior to takeoff: First officer: See all those icicles on the back there and everything? First officer: Boy, this is a losing battle here on trying to de-ice those things, it gives you a false feeling of security, that’s all it does First officer: Let’s check those wing tops again, since we’ve been sitting here a while? Captain: I think we get to go here in a minute. Later that plane crashed because of problems caused by ice on the wings. If the co-pilot had more strongly advocated his opinion and forced the pilot to de-ice the wings before takeoff, that incident would have been avoided. Although the co-pilot had hinted 3 times at the possible dangers of not de-icing the wings, the pilot ignored his comments as trivial and unimportant. www.publicspeakingtoolkit.com/ethnic-theory-of-plane-crashes.html
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Post by Jaga on Jul 6, 2013 20:52:05 GMT -7
I believe that there was some miscommunication in the airplane: Crash Survivor Says Announcement Claimed the Plane Had Landed Safely news.yahoo.com/crash-survivor-says-announcement-claimed-020116680.htmlMoments after Asiana Airlines flight 214 stopped its violent crash landing, a voice came over the plane's intercom to say it had landed safely and everyone should stay in their seats, a passenger told ABC News. Within minutes, however, flames could be seen outside the plane's windows and smoke was seeping into the cabin. Lee Jang-Hyung, 32, was sitting with his wife Lee Ji-Young, 33, and his toddler son who is 15 months old in the front row of the plane's economy class section. His parents-in-law were sitting in business class. Hyung said he and his family survived the crash without injury, but he was clearly shaken by the harrowing close call. "Just minutes before landing, I looked out the window and realized the plane's angle was strangely tilted. The seawater level did not look right," said Hyung, a Korean citizen who lives near Berkeley. His wife is an American citizen. "Suddenly, the plane's tail part hit the ground and the aircraft bounced upwards and then bam, it hit the ground again. This time it felt like the entire plane hit parallel, but tilted to the left. That pressure was huge. Very strong. I saw luggages fall from the top. And the plane gradually stopped. "Until then, there was no warning. The drop happened without a warning," he said. Still stunned by the crash, he said, "We heard an announcement saying the plane has safely landed and everyone should stay put." Hyung said he put on an oxygen mask that had dropped down and put another on his young son and ran to the door. "But I was turned back to my seat by the flight attendants. Right when I came back to my seat, I saw smoke and fire outside the right window. The flames were spreading and smoke started to come inside the aircraft. I grabbed my wife and son and ran to the exit door. By then, they had slides ready," he said.
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Post by Jaga on Jul 6, 2013 20:55:29 GMT -7
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg reschedules flight, avoids plane crash www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/07/06/facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-was-scheduled-to-fly-crashed-asiana-air-flight/2495409/Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg was supposed to be aboard the Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday morning. Sandberg and other execs at the social media giant escaped potential disaster when they switched to a United flight returning from a Korean business trip. Two passengers were reported dead and 181 injured when the Boeing 777 landed short of a runway at about 11:27 a.m. PT. "I was on another flight from Korea at the exact same time,'' she said in an email to USA TODAY's Jon Swartz. "We are ok. My friend on that flight is ok, too." Sandberg, 43, says colleagues Debbie Frost, Charlton Gholson and Kelly Hoffman also switched flights. Sandberg, a billionaire and author of the recently released best seller Lean In, took another flight flight from Seoul to cash in air miles tickets for family members. She said the United flight landed 20 minutes before the Asiana crashed. "Thanks you to everyone who is reaching out - and sorry if we worried anyone,'' she tweeted. Samsung executive David Eun, who was on crashed flight, was among the first to tweet and send photos of the heavily damaged Boeing 777. "I just crash landed at SFO,'' he said. "Tail ripped off. Most everyone seems fine. I'm ok. Surreal." Eun, shared information about fellow passengers and photos from the crash site, gaining thousands of new Twitter followers as he posted updates. Late Saturday afternoon, Eun tweeted; "Just went through customs. Adrenaline rush is subsiding. Just trying to process all this. Really glad that most everyone I saw seemed ok, with just a few minor injuries. Thinking a lot about family and friends right now..."
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Post by Jaga on Jul 7, 2013 10:22:35 GMT -7
Asiana Airlines flight 214 crew seemed surprised by crash in San Francisco www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57592549/asiana-airlines-flight-214-crew-seemed-surprised-by-crash-in-san-francisco/The sudden, unheralded nature of Aviana Airlines flight 214's crash in San Francisco on Saturday afternoon seems to have taken even the jet's trained crew by surprise in the crucial, chaotic moments after it came to rest just beyond the seawall at the end of the runway. After the Boeing 777-200 that originated in Seoul, South Korea, hit the seawall barrier at the end of the runway, snapping the tail right off the aircraft, San Francisco resident and crash survivor Benjamin Levy said the crew was simply "overwhelmed." He said there was no verbal warning from the pilot or crew before the impact. "I mean, the crew was not expecting it at all," Levy said. "So, I mean the ones who were able were helping, the ones who were injured were not. You know, we had to help each other out."
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