The pilots of AirAsia flight 8501 cut power to a critical computer system that normally prevents planes from going out of control shortly before it plunged into the Java Sea ...
The action appears to have helped trigger the events of December 28, when the Airbus A320 climbed so abruptly that it lost lift and it began falling with warnings blaring in the cockpit ...
The pilots had been attempting to deal with alerts about the flight augmentation computers, which control the A320's rudder and also automatically prevent it from going too slow. After initial attempts to address the alerts, the flight crew cut power to the entire system, which is comprised of two separate computers that back up each other ...
Investigators are still trying to determine
why the pilots would cut power by pulling a circuit breaker in the cockpit.
.... it doesn't explain why the pilots pulled the plane into a steep climb, the people said. Even with the computers shut off, the pilots should have been able to fly the plane manually, they said.
Airbus discourages pilots from cutting power to systems because electronics in the highly computerised aircraft are interconnected and turning off one component can effect others ...
In the event of a malfunction or loss of power, the flight protections will shut down and leave the pilots to fly the plane manually. That appears to be what happened before flight 8501 entered the steep climb and stalled ...
http://www.smh.com.au/world/airasia...ers-moments-before-crash-20150129-131qq4.html
This makes much sense. Media is making it like this "happened". My sense is this crew had been battling with some time witht he hideous weather they had been- when looking at the radar they were in some serious junk before they hit the unreal part. This makes me think super crew. Seemed they aware (AF maybe?), military pilot (I am not letting some computer fly my damn plane in this soup!) and said I am killing this thing.
Sounds like they knew the best hope of maybe remaining alive was to fly by the seat of thier pants, like the old days, when you dont have AIrbus computers thinking they are smarter that you! I vote at the end of the day they will be applauded for killing i and attempting to fly the plane their nightmare.
I find it interesting that lately it seems they are "stuck" with the notion that the pilots input the planes out of control assenct and subsquent decent as if to be "suddenly" ignoring these guys were in a cat 6 thunderstorm, that winds past hurricane cat 3 winds were swirling around them, destroying controllabley, lift, roll of the aircraft etc.
The fact that it seems as if the aircraft did not end up disintergrated on the way down from stuctural overloads is a tribute their flying acumen.
NOr do we know if these systems were tripped manually or in another part of the chain of events as the aircraft was tossed around the sky like a little toy.
This kinda stuff always makes me think lots, just cant grasp that there are certain things human beings cant control, that are as a result of "phsics" just going to occur and alter some folks situation beyond their control.
I still dont get why the transcripts have not released. Historically here in us the release of that info went throgh "phases" to. IN like the 70's Cockpit voice recorders were , even transcropts, never released to the general public. YOu can only get the transcripts inside the final reports. Then there rich infomration slowly got absorbed by media by inferences. INvestgators say they never heard on the cockpit recorder the flight crew lowering the landing gear or whatever.
Then it started to be come "OK" for little interchanges, in transcript form, to be reported. Then it moved to entire readout of cockpit recorder was transcribed and released. THen it progressed (intenet) where the actual recordings in their entitiy could be listened to online. And now we are at the place where there are websites totally dedicated to playing recordings in their entitiy.
IN all the recordings I have always been amazed at how calme and "problem solving" they reamain until the final stuff. Some are chilling, one yelling he loved his mom before recording eneded, one yelling he loved his wife.
Here are some famous ones: (the cut and paste was weird!)
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Air Canada
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621
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Pete, sorry.
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United Airlines
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553
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Eastern Air Lines
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401
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Hey, what's happening here?
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1736/4805
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Pacific Southwest Airlines
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182
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Ma I love you.
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A
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United Airlines
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173
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United 173, Mayday! We're... the engines are flaming out - we're going down!
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Air Florida
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90
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Larry, we're going down, Larry.... I know it!
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Aeromexico
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498
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Oh #### this can't be!Oh #### this can't be!
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LOT Polish Airlines
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5055
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Goodnight, Goodbye, We Perish!
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El Al
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Going down...eh...1862, going down, going down, copied going down?
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USAir
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427
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Hang on. What the hell is this?
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Atlantic Southeast Airlines
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529
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Amy, I love you.
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Egypt Air
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990
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I rely on God
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Avisto
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Alaska Airlines
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261
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Ah here we go. This one was really scary - they flew upside down for a while
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1549
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We're gonna be in the Hudson.
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