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Lion Air flight JT610 crashes into sea after take-off from Jakarta...
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What is a pitot cover?
OP
What is a pitot tube? How does it work?
Covers the air speed indicator when the plane is left for any length of time in tropical climates... apparently wasps like to build mud nests in them which has been the root cause of a number of accidents over the years.
See detailed ATSB investigation:
Investigation: AO-2018-053 - Airspeed indication failure on take-off involving Airbus A330, 9M-MTK, Brisbane Airport, Queensland, on 18 July 2018
Is this such a common problem, that pilots would leap to that as a potential reason, right away, or just that it having happened recently let's the web warriors go there quickly?
Dan
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Search for cause of deadly Boeing 737 MAX Lion Air crash begins
"Investigators will also study Boeing’s detailed records of how each part of this jet was built, particularly because it was completed during the chaotic production issues in Renton this summer.
Lion Air Chief Executive Edward Sirait said in a news conference that the fault reported on the jet’s previous flight, which he didn’t specify, had been fixed after instructions from Boeing before the plane took off again from Jakarta.
In an interview Monday, Jon Ostrower, aviation expert and editor of The Air Current, a digital aviation publication, said that according to standard practice after an airplane crash, “the first thing investigators look at is the maintenance logs and what was serviced in the flights preceding the accident.”
From those logs, the air traffic control exchanges with the pilots, the black-box data and the cockpit voice recorder, “I think we’re going to get an indication pretty quick” of the areas investigators will zoom in on, Ostrower said.
Indonesia’s transport-safety committee will lead the investigation. But because the plane was built in the United States, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) aviation-accident inspectors will assist with the inquiry, backed up by technical advisers from Boeing and U.S.-French engine maker CFM International, co-owned by General Electric and Safran."
"Investigators will also study Boeing’s detailed records of how each part of this jet was built, particularly because it was completed during the chaotic production issues in Renton this summer.
Lion Air Chief Executive Edward Sirait said in a news conference that the fault reported on the jet’s previous flight, which he didn’t specify, had been fixed after instructions from Boeing before the plane took off again from Jakarta.
In an interview Monday, Jon Ostrower, aviation expert and editor of The Air Current, a digital aviation publication, said that according to standard practice after an airplane crash, “the first thing investigators look at is the maintenance logs and what was serviced in the flights preceding the accident.”
From those logs, the air traffic control exchanges with the pilots, the black-box data and the cockpit voice recorder, “I think we’re going to get an indication pretty quick” of the areas investigators will zoom in on, Ostrower said.
Indonesia’s transport-safety committee will lead the investigation. But because the plane was built in the United States, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) aviation-accident inspectors will assist with the inquiry, backed up by technical advisers from Boeing and U.S.-French engine maker CFM International, co-owned by General Electric and Safran."
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billt4sf
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WOW. They descended from 5,100 ft to sea level at a rate of 30,000 ft/min = 1/6 of a minute, i.e. ten seconds of terror.
- Bill
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Tool Belt
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Pitot tube failure would be a tragic cause as any pilot, particularly one with +5000 hours, ___should____ be able to fly the aircraft in clear weather during the daylight with no instruments whatsoever.....we look out the window for visual references.....
Having said that it HAS happened in the past, and that has lead to increased and specific training.
Birgenair Flight 301 - Wikipedia
Having said that it HAS happened in the past, and that has lead to increased and specific training.
Birgenair Flight 301 - Wikipedia
Wingy
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Doomed Boeing 737's previous flight was a 'roller coaster' ride - this puts an interesting slant on that particular aircrafts problems...
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