Crash at Amsterdam airport....

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Cara Van Man said:

Eric Mc said:

Cara Van Man said:

Eric Mc said:

Far too soon to go any further than just report what people observed.

It looks like all on the flight deck were killed - which is rather surprising given that fact that it was the back end of the aircraft that seemed the most damaged. This indicates to me that the vertical rate of descent must have been pretty high resulting in a big impact. That definitely DOES indicate that the aircraft was coming down with little forward speed and ina stalled condition.

I keep being reminded of the Trident accident at Heathrow in 1972 when the aircraft stalled during climb out and decended in a nose high atitude into a field at Staines. No one survived that one because the stall occured a couple of thousand feet up rather than a few hundred feet.

Edited by Eric Mc on Wednesday 25th February 17:14

IIRC that one was caused because the two junior pilots were scared of the senior Captn and when he was fking up they didn't say anything.

The Trident crashed because someone retracted the leading edge droops in error. No one know why they did this and no one knows what was going on on the flightdeck that day. Back then there was no requirement for British airliners to carry Cockpit Voice Recorders. It was because of this accident that they were made compulsory.
The crew of the Trident was made of of a Captain, First Office (Co-Pilot) and Flight Engineer.

I saw a documentary on it.....the Capt was very senior and a bit of a tyrant with a reputation for ignoring his juniors, the two young lads apprently realised he was making mistake but he bullied them into saying nothing until it was too late.

An old English teacher of mine used to fly with Captain Key, she didn't mention what he was like, but she was a bit curt herself sometimes, so if the later reference is true, they may have been a bit alike so got on?