Are Pilots to 'proud' to call a mayday when crashing....?
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With the recent spate of aircrashes, there seems to be a worrying lack of communication from the planes. Have pilots become too 'proud' to call a mayday/SOS when the s
t hits the fan? Seems to me the French Atlantic plane must have been in trouble for a number of minutes before crashing, yet nothing from the pilots on the airwaves. Same with the Camoran crash. I know their busy when stuff happens but even just opening the mic's and transmitting whats happening should be second nature. Have the pilots become to 'scared' to ask for help or declare emergencies? What about an automated system?
Also, why do we rely on the black box of info on plane crashes? A plane could easily send a data burst with all the required information as soon as systems detect parameters out of the normal.
We may never know what really happened to the Air France plane, unless another plane is lost in similar conditions.
t hits the fan? Seems to me the French Atlantic plane must have been in trouble for a number of minutes before crashing, yet nothing from the pilots on the airwaves. Same with the Camoran crash. I know their busy when stuff happens but even just opening the mic's and transmitting whats happening should be second nature. Have the pilots become to 'scared' to ask for help or declare emergencies? What about an automated system? Also, why do we rely on the black box of info on plane crashes? A plane could easily send a data burst with all the required information as soon as systems detect parameters out of the normal.
We may never know what really happened to the Air France plane, unless another plane is lost in similar conditions.
OK. so you all think I'm being really stupid suggesting that the pilots priorities do not include a mayday call when its quite obvious that things are unrecoverable? According to the data seen from the Air France plane it was transmitting various failure sugnals for a number of minutes (perhaps 4+?).
And you dont think a mayday call when flying over the Atlantic out of radar contact is a priority? Well, perhaps they were already all dead or incapcitated. Perhaps the two 'drivers' were too busy to key the mike's. Perhaps they were already dead. But do you not think some kind of automated system giving accurate positional information could not be activated when a series of alarms are triggered? I'd want someone to know where and when this was happening. On modern planes all the required equipment is already abord.
Perhaps the removal of the 'third man' from the cockpit of long haul jets is to blame. Too much for the pilots to do in an emergency?
And you dont think a mayday call when flying over the Atlantic out of radar contact is a priority? Well, perhaps they were already all dead or incapcitated. Perhaps the two 'drivers' were too busy to key the mike's. Perhaps they were already dead. But do you not think some kind of automated system giving accurate positional information could not be activated when a series of alarms are triggered? I'd want someone to know where and when this was happening. On modern planes all the required equipment is already abord.
Perhaps the removal of the 'third man' from the cockpit of long haul jets is to blame. Too much for the pilots to do in an emergency?
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