Maybe the information they had from US pilots that they also had issues but were able to overcome the issue and continue the flight as intended. Possibly US aircrews are trained a little better or are more able to rationalize on the fly? We were always taught that if you did something and it upset the apple cart undo what you just did to begin with. Just a thought.bob
Based on new "physical evidence" recovered at the crash scene.https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47562727Considering that the plane basically nosedived and augered in perpendicular to the ground, pulverizing everything, the only physical evidence I can imagine that would have yielded any information at all would be the black boxes.
In my experience teaching Saudis and Indonesians to fly, yes, Americans and other westerners are much better prepared to learn to fly. The general knowledge and comfort with technology really helps.
I helped the US Navy train Iranians back in the day when we still sold them airplanes (F4s, F14s and P3s) to play with. To say they could not always grasp the finer parts of the instruction would be an understatement. Their common method of taking the exams was to have one guy translate the question into Farsi and all of them would discuss it for a while and then all answer the same. Many times the term "dumber than a box of rocks" was thrown about. bob
The probable cause was stated to be "a loss of airplane pitch control resulting from the in-flight failure of the horizontal stabilizer trim system jackscrew assembly's acme nut threads. The thread failure was caused by excessive wear resulting from Alaska Airlines' insufficient lubrication of the jackscrew assembly".
Different plane, but that "augering in" sounds like what happened in that Air Alaska crash. The jackscrew operating the elevators got stripped out due to lack of proper maintenance / lubrication procedures and locked the elevators into an uncontrollable dive.The thing there was the pilots tried their best guess at a correction procedure and the correction procedure itself was irreversible and caused it to fail totally.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261
I call dibs on all your stuff...
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You're welcome to all of it. You may be sorry.
Piece Found At Ethiopian Airlines Crash Site Shows Jet Was Set To Dive....A screw-like device found in the wreckage of the Boeing 737 Max that crashed last Sunday in Ethiopia indicates the plane was configured to dive, a piece of evidence that helped convince U.S. regulators to ground the model, a person familiar with the investigation said late Thursday night.The piece of evidence was a so-called jackscrew, used to set the trim that raises and lowers the plane's nose, according to the person, who requested anonymity to discuss the inquiry.
It could show that the compuetrized "stall preventer" had adjusted the the piece, not that the part was defective/broken as in the Alaska Airlines instance.
It still might be software driving the screw to its "dive" limits, as opposed to its getting stuck there due to improper lubrication.
Somewhere, there's possibly a Software Engineer (or a group of them) going over their code in great detail.
To Fly320s -- does that sort of explain what might have been going on?
