03-12-2019, 06:55 AM
(02-18-2019, 09:34 AM)ScarletHayes Wrote: I recall one episode that involved a flight from China to San Francisco. They encountered what the investigators later discovered was an extremely minor issue. It (the malfunction) may have been due to the crew itself, but I forget now. Anyway, these guys landed this plane in SF after it fell out of the sky on a couple of occasions (where they obviously pulled it out of a crash). By the time they landed, the plane was barely held together after the G forces all but tore it to pieces. The landing itself was a minor miracle. The expert flying exhibited to just land the thing blew the the passengers away. Anyway, after a painstaking investigation, what they found was that one of the pilots was exhausted. Had very little sleep. That one factor caused many obvious routine checks to be missed by the entire crew. It turned out that to get out of the original predicament, it was just a routine solution found in one of the safety binders. The crew skipped right over it and eventually went straight into disaster zone. Â
Bottom line was that the crew's negligence put everyone's life in danger, but it then ended up being their miraculous skill that pulled them out of it. No casualties outside of the plane itself. Majority of the passengers praised the crew at their expert flying to save them, even after finding out that it was their negligence that put them in danger in the first place.
Some reporter got in trouble after that flight for tweeting that the the pilots were Ho Lee Fuk and Sum Ting Wong.