Flight 214 Pilots

1.Collaborative care, effective personalities that manage to take over the care and display their ideas as the effect of collaboration.

Increased automation is the result of a need to reduce cost, which in turn is driven by a company's need to become more competitive and grow market share -- a trend accelerated by pressures felt by the difficult economic situation.

A major Dis-advantage would be the setting up of the system in the first place, the company would need to dismantle previous systems, training employees on how to use the equipment be time

Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was departing from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to Seattle, Washington, with a layover stop at San Francisco, California on January 31, 2000. The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 and had 5 crew members and 83 passengers on board at the time of its accident. It was nearly 4 hours into the flight when it crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Anacapa Island, California. All of the passengers and crew members perished. The cause of the accident resulted from an “inflight failure of the horizontal stabilizer trim system jackscrew assembly’s acme nut thread.”(NTSB, 12/10/2002) There were a couple of contributing factors that led to this failure and accident. The first factor is the lubrication intervals at which Alaska

“The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable cause of the accident was the pilots' failure to use available reverse thrust in a timely manner to safely slow or stop the airplane after landing, which resulted in a runway overrun. This failure occurred because the pilots' first experience and lack of familiarity with the airplane's autobrake system distracted them from using reverse thrust during the challenging landing” (FAA, 2005).

Fatigue, stress, complacency, communication, awareness, distraction, lack of knowledge, teamwork, lack of resources, pressure, lack of assertiveness, and norms constitute factors that affect pilots, mechanics, managers and crew every day in their duty. They constitute what scientists of the aviation industry called the dirty dozen. Most people in the aviation field will be affected by at least one of these factors without even realizing it. The causes of a crash are always link to something, whether it is mechanical, meteorological or human error. The case of Zonk Air is no different. When it comes to accident reports or drawing a conclusion of investigation, factual information and detail data are very important. They are important in the

The records of Asian Airlines indicate that the trainee pilot had made 29 prior flights to SFO airport as a Boeing 747 first officer, and of those 29 flights he made

Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashed on February 25, 2009 due to a faulty radio altimeter and pilot error. The radio altimeter started producing faults during the final segment of the flight when the aircraft was roughly 2,000 feet above the ground. The captain’s altimeter instantly changed from 1950 ft. to -8 ft. Because the pilots had auto throttles engaged and the aircraft believed it was getting reading to touch down. Therefore, the auto throttles reduced power to retard mode. Retard mode is where the auto throttles automatically reduce power to the engines in preparation to touching down. The pilots noticed the auto throttles reduced power so the first officer manually increased the throttles to maintain appropriate speed to finish the final approach. However, since the first officer failed to hold the throttle lever in position the throttles automatically went back to idle speed. The aircraft stayed at idle speed (100 seconds) until 490 feet above the ground, were the stick shaker was activated indicating the aircraft was about to stall. When the stick shaker was activated the auto throttles advanced to full throttle but

The advances in technology has an enormous effect on society since the invention of the telephone. However, technological advances have brought great mishaps as well. The invention of the auto-pilot function has changed the way us humans travel by air. This invention saves time and money from training future pilots. On the other hand, is that a good thing? In an essay from Nicolas Carr called “The Great Forgetting”, He notes that the invention of auto-pilot may be a more of a step down than a step up in the technology world. It was February 12, 2009 when the Q400 crashed into a small house in Buffalo, New York. As the pilot was well into landing the plane, a malfunction in the flaps resulted in the disconnection of the auto-pilot. Instead of preventing the plane to go into a “stall”, the pilot caused one “by doing precisely the wrong thing: jerking back the yoke instead of pushing forward to gain velocity”. Another similar incident occurred on May 31, when a plane malfunctioned and the pilot did not know what to do once autopilot was cut off, resulting in the death of all passengers of the plane. “Overuse of automation erodes pilots’ expertise and dulls their reflexes, leading to what Jan Noyes, an ergonomics expert at Britain’s University of Bristol, terms “de-skilling of the crew.”.”

Asiana Airlines flight 214 is a scheduled passenger flight from Incheon International Airport near Seoul, South Korea, to San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, California, USA. On July 6th, 2013 on the Saturday morning, the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft operating the flight, crashed when on a final approach into SFO, when the airplane struck the seawall breaking the tail section of the plane. Of 307 people aboard, 3 died, 49 sustained serious injuries and 187 sustained minor injuries. The airplane was destroyed by impact

Another advantage derived from automation is simplifies management of personal finance. Now, with automation, missed bills, charges for late payments, high interest rate for penalties is a thing of the past. The existence of these fees indicates mismanaged finances; automation prevents this from happening and saves you from chronic financial headache.

COPILOT: All right. [To Tower] Maui Tower, Two forty-three can you hear me on Tower? TOWER: Aloha Two forty-three, I hear you loud and clear. Go ahead. COPILOT: Ah, we’re gonna need assistance. We cannot communicate with the flight attendants. Ah, we’ll need assistance for the passengers when we land… TOWER: Okay, I understand you’re gonna need an ambulance. Is that correct? COPILOT: Affirmative.” As the plane slowed down for approach at 10,000 feet mean sea level, the captain retracted speed brakes, removed oxygen mask and began to turn the airplane towards Maui’s runway 02 at 210 knots. He gave the command to lower flaps to five; flaps were initially set at one. The captain attempted to extend the flaps further but the plane became less controllable. He gave command to lower landing gear at normal point in approach pattern. Main gear was indicated “down and locked”. Nose gear position indicator light did not illuminate. The manual nose gear extension was selected still no green light illuminated, nor the red landing gear unsafe indicator light. No visual was conducted due to occupied jump seat and need for an immediate landing. At 1355, the copilot advised tower of no nose gear. The tower responded with a confirmed visual of nose gear. (MacPherson, 160) “COPILOT: Okay, be advised. We have no nose gear. We are landing without

One of the main advantages is the ability to improve maintenance reliability, reduce time, cost and human error.

The American Airlines Flight 1420 was on its way to Little Rock National Airport on the 1st June 1999. The pilot of the airplane was regarded as an experienced one. NTSB (2001) reports that the aircraft used in the flight is a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82 (MD-82). The flight was scheduled to touchdown at 11:50 P.M. and had an on

During July of this year a commercial plane from Asiana Airlines(Airplane that goes between South Korea and America) crashed in San Francisco.When the plane was about to land the automated flight system was on(autopilot system) and the auto throttle was supposed to be on to land safely.The auto throttle was not on so the plane fell onto the runway and crashed.This is not the first time this happened.This just proves that pilots are getting addicted to the autopilot system.