Glide Approach News Today

The eyewitnesss what does your gut tell you? >> my gut tells me, perhaps, its kind of crazy to say, perhaps it was the beautifully clear day that threw everyone off. you are expecting an instrument approach, pilots on a plane this sophisticated, everyone loves the plane. its fully auto pilot land, it has every bell and whistle, and usually you fly on the auto pilot. it adjusts your throttle and speed and gives you warnings for everything. it can fly itself, on this particular day in san francisc...

In to something called crew resource management in recent years. who will challenge and say something. theres been investigations where the ntsb has been critical for not challenging each other. you are supposed to challenge the pilot flying if something does not sound right, if they are not lined up for the landing. this being a visual approach. they needed a long glide slope in if they did not have the equipment to do it. and its not always the first officer, as they trade off, is supposed to ...

Now, ive been thinking about this throughout the past few hours, and there are a number of other considerations that may or may not have been made really clear. one of them has to do with the fact that at least in one other case with a triple 7 in london, they were on approach to land, and they ended up landing short also and its my understanding that it was all because of the fuel situation. for one reason or another, the throttles were moving and the engines were not increasing in their thrust...