Presumably the investigators based their report on the fdr readouts, which shows the Apparent positions of the control columns based on position sensors. If the sensors somehow failed amd were sending Uncommanded signals (ie the pilots did not actually move the control columns) then it will appear to look as if everything was working as advertised. Control column moved... Control surfaces move as commanded. But what if the transducers or computers really went haywire? Imagine this... Pilots didn't put any column movement but surfaces are commanded to move by faulty transducers or computers... Wouldn't that account for the total confusion of the pilots? Have the pilots given their side of the story? As a ground engineer I used to do B777 flight control tests through the computer. Without touching any cockpit controls the test sends random signals to the surface actuators. I could see the random movements of the surfaces on the cockpit instruments. Maybe....?

(Written on 05/02/2022)(Permalink)

While attending to egypt air aircraft I had no choice but to enter the cockpit to review the log books. With the whole flight crew in cockpit smoking and jabbering in egyptian. And me.. a non smoker and hater of second hand smoke, able to smell the slightest whiff of cigarette smoke from 50 ft away even before I could see the smoker... OMG I wished my company provided Oxy cyclinders to engineers assigned to egypt air. The whole cockpit STINKS!

(Written on 05/02/2022)(Permalink)

The fact that only 3 of 4 doors deployed on 1 eng seems to me it's a purely mechanical failure rather than an uncommanded deployment. A pilot would normally grab both TR levers together to actuate. We are not told why they decided to GA but if ground observers think they have already touched down wouldn't that mean they were below decision altitude? (200'?) It's hard to belive people can't differentiate an aircaft at Above 200' and think it has already contacted the ground. So why did they decide to abort? Cows on runway? Btw the Lauda crash resulted in lots of mods on TR systems to prevent in flight deployment. So I think it's probably a mechanical failure (as in broken locking parts?) rather than uncommanded deployment.

(Written on 05/02/2022)(Permalink)

As safe as tesla cars with brain dead drivers.

(Written on 05/01/2022)(Permalink)

This is not the first time flight aware saw fit to feature a squawk that links to subscription required site. It is an insult to members that it does not see fit to Also Warn right up front that it is in fact nothing more than an affiliate advertisement.

(Written on 12/23/2021)(Permalink)

Stripped of their jobs. Strip in protest. 😍

(Written on 10/21/2021)(Permalink)

Not the first time I have seen BREAKING=the act of applying the brakes (the breaks?) . Even on YouTube. Doesn't bother me any more.

(Written on 10/21/2021)(Permalink)

Iit can never be a safe plane. It has its CG in the wrong position and is using computers to constantly fight to keep the plane in the air. This design philosophy is ok for fighter planes. Not for passenger planes.

(Written on 10/21/2021)(Permalink)

Failure on Delivery Flight?!? Doesn't that qualify fora One-for-One exchange?

(Written on 10/21/2021)(Permalink)

No no no. It wasn't a "electrical failure". This is MCAS VER 2 in action. What? It's not in the flight manual? Figures.

(Written on 10/21/2021)(Permalink)