The families of the 132 people on board the Boeing 737-800, which crashed yesterday in China, and lost their lives, desperately waiting for someone new. At the same time, experts say the pilot “may have regained consciousness” when G forces left the crew unconscious and “tried to save the crashed plane”.
China Eastern crashed all its Boeing 737-800s after 132 people died, which made a 30,000 foot vertical dive in two minutes and fell to the ground at a speed of 350mph, according to the Daily Mail.
Residents of the area were the first to reach the crash site on Monday, where a large fire broke out, which was even recorded by NASA satellites.
Meanwhile, speaking to Sun Online, aviation expert Sally Gethin said that the flight data suggests that there was a “10 to 20 second interval where one or more of the pilots regained consciousness and tried to save the plane” before it crashed to the ground.
She herself claimed that everyone on board “would be unconscious” in this final dive.
“Pilots are trained a lot, a lot is done in simulators. But in the real world, they can be overwhelmed by sudden events. This is known as the startle effect and it’s very difficult to train for that.
Even experienced pilots can be surprised and then make bad decisions. “Efforts are now being made to recognize this and offer additional training,” Gethin said.
The expert also noted that it is “too early to speculate” about it what may have caused the crashbut some chances could be a queue malfunction, weather or thousands of other problems that may have affected the aircraft, such as a “small fire on board” or a wiring problem.
He added that it was “unusual” that the co-pilot had 30,000 hours of flight experience while the pilot only 7,000 hours. There was also a third trainee pilot on the plane, who had only a few hundred hours of experience.
Source: News Beast
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