@ Ric dees and the weekly top 40s, I hope you are not simply posting this because the view was on your top 40 views chart. It's good you talked of views expressed as opposed to facts expressed

Back to stream, KQ's safety audits always return a healthy bill to the carrier, including in the years 2000 and 2007 when we had fatal hull losses. These are safety audits based on applied procedures for maintenance and aircraft operation so go chill yourself with a cold coke. KQ is a safe airline. You think KQ is a skyteam member, entrusted with not only the safety but the confidence of thousands of travellers traveling on tickets issued by carriers like AF and KLM because of the lively livery on the aircraft?

What most people don’t see is the similarity between the 2000 and 2007 crashes. Both of these tragic accidents occurred due to the failure of all four pilots to scan, read, and understand what their instruments were telling them.

In the first case, the plane was descending and then crashed. Both pilots had no idea what the aircraft was doing until it was 10ft above the water, when it hit the captain how precarious their situation was. His desperate yell of “Go up” was captured on the CVR a second before the accident.

In the second case, the non engagement of the auto-pilot was by itself not tragic. What was tragic is that right after take-off, situational awareness was lost. Both pilots did not realize that the plane was not being flown by the autopilot and was dangerously banking. The instruments would have shown them the status of the autopilot and the attitude of the plane. The FDR recorded this information. Both pilots failed to see and therefore could not take the appropriate action until the automated bank warning was set off. The action was then panicky with the captain first banking the plane further to the right, the co-pilot shouting “right captain right” before correcting himself to say left.

Leaving aside the supposed arrogance of the KQ507 captain, note that both of these accidents took place at night. In the first, it was over water and in the second, it was over land during a storm. When such a situation occurs and the pilots do not rely on their instruments, they will become spatially disoriented, with grave consequences.

@alma wewe ni malenge.
Ha hahahahahahah..

@alma,
In this partcular, the pilots are also suffering from what the west suffers in terms of blame.......arrogance!!!!!

....you (or your parents) need to be super loaded for you to acquire a CPL/ATPL ...Na kuingia hiyo ab initio training ya KQ ... boss ... you would have better luck convincing a mean banker to hand over 10 million as a gift.

I tried thrice (with good grades, and the final time I had a BSc under my belt) ..didn't make it