DEFCON Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20150215000021&cid=1103 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 What else is expected of most Union leaders ?3DsDeny...Distort...Deflect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blues deville Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Returning to the SOP discussion, the pre-takeoff procedure in Boeing's SOPs includes identifying the departure runway on the ND.http://www.aeroinside.com/item/5334/westjet-b737-at-toronto-on-oct-30th-2014-departed-wrong-runway-rnl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inchman Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 This incident looks like multiple causes to me (as they all are). Not the least of which that it was probably not a good idea for ATC to clear them for takeoff when they still had a runway to cross... especially a parallel. It may have been "legal" but still probably not a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 newsAviationRegulatory OPINION: Where have the steely-eyed pilots gone?Source: in an hourDespite the statistics suggesting that flying is as safe as it has ever been, it feels increasingly fragile with every passing accident.Setting aside the violent shootdown of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and the surreal disappearance of MH370 last year – which are enough on their own to unsettle many air travellers – the airlines’ fragility is showing up mostly in their pilots.According to another set of equally valid statistics, these square-jawed, steely-eyed alpha males and females are increasingly unable to handle the routine upsets they are there to deal with: events their forebears managed without fuss in the days not so long ago when machinery was much less reliable.It is hard to imagine the Taiwan Aviation Safety Council finding the TransAsia ATR 72-600 crash to have been caused by something other than the crew, by mistake, shutting down the good engine when the other one failed. The nation’s civil aviation authority has ordered pilot testing and retraining accordingly.Because the 112 years since the first powered flight is, in human evolutionary terms, of zero significance, Charles Darwin might suggest the reason why modern pilots often fail is related to a changing environment. He’d be half right: things are changing, mostly for the better, but it is today’s failure to train pilots to resilience instead of to licence minimums that is the problem.http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/opinion-where-have-the-steely-eyed-pilots-gone-409044/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEFCON Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 You can train and retrain inexperienced pilots all you want and with enough time, most, but not all will eventually learn to hit the right switches in response to specific stimulus, but in the real world, more often than not, events don't unfold as they do in the relative safety of the simulator environment, which can leave the rote trained airline pilot want-to-be and his passengers in a very serious predicament; AF 447 for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Hudson Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 The industry has come to terms with the technical sources of accidents such as navigation, weather, airports, communications, airframes, engines & mid-air collision. What is emerging now is the one factor which is the most difficult to come to terms with manage design priorities for and that is the human factor. While this is no news to anyone here, it is important to place the accidents being seen now in the context of past accidents which resulted from failures in the seven categories above. The equipment and the aviaiton system today has resulted in spectacularly low fatal accident rate; what we are seeing as salient against the background 'noise' is the human element, there being vastly-reduced numbers as a result of these other factors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Transasia: Taiwan airline shuts after crashes 4 hours ago From the section BusinessImage copyright EPA Taiwanese airline Transasia is shutting down after two fatal crashes and heavy losses. The carrier, which flew to cities in China, Japan and south east Asia, said it had not been able to raise more money or turn around its finances. Transasia, Taiwan's third largest airline, had already cancelled all flights on Monday. Earlier this year, regulators ordered it to review safety protocols and pilot training to cut "imminent risks". Those recommendations, from the country's Aviation Safety Council, followed an investigation into an incident in July 2014, when Transasia flight 222 crashed in a heavy storm near Magong Airport on Taiwan's Penghu island, leaving 48 dead. Ten survived. Tragedy struck again in February 2015, when TransAsia flight 235 clipped a bridge in Taipei and came down in the Keelung River, killing 43 people. That incident was captured on the dashboard camera of a passing vehicle. Closing the airline had been a "very painful choice", chief executive Daniel Liu said. Passengers with tickets for future flights would be refunded, the airline said. The future of its 1,700 staff members was unclear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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