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By scooby

 There was another incident involving aviation safety, which I bring up since there were many posts on this topic previously:


https://www.fox13news.com/news/southwest-flight-tampa-has-close-call-150-feet-above-courtney-campbell-causeway-its-hard-believe

It seems that for the third time in recent memory, a Southwest flight was at low altitude when it should not be, which runs the risk of colliding with terrain obstacles such as buildings, radio towers, or the ground itself. It seems this may have happened because the pilots failed to use instruments on landing, instead relying on visual cues.

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Anonymous said…
This could also raise a broader concern that Southwest's procedures and pilot training are not up to par, creating a concern of poor flying in general. There are DEI programs there as you know but I imagine this is sonewhat unrelated, there are good pilots of all races, ethic goups and so forth
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7/23/2024 7:04 PM
Anonymous said…
There could also be particular issues, that GPS was jammed or that any inertial guidance unit was not reset to its proper location on takeoff -- these suffer from drift as you know:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system

There could also have been issues with ILS, the instrument landing system, that precluded its use:

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/how-instrument-landing-system-works-and-why-its-important

It does seem though that at least in the latest case, there could have been a failure to use some of these systems, on a nonfamiliar runway and approach, leading to the issue.

It could be even more concerning that there were evidently changes of procedure or training designed to address the previous issues, and the issue happened again.
7/24/2024 4:00 AM
Anonymous said…
In an unrelated incident earlier this year, a Southwest airplane had a Dutch roll incident, the details of this are unknown but it can be potentially serious. In particular, aircraft have a damping system to suppress this type of motion. Without this system active the dutch roll motion is still damped (the plane does not destroy itself) but the motions will have a much larger magnitude. They also become less prevalent at lower altitudes of course.

Overcompensation for Dutch Roll by an inexperienced pilot using the controls of the aircraft can have potentially catastrophic consequences, by putting excessive loading on the tail and rudder.

Dutch roll also has another meaning in the context of aviation but that is not what this refers to -- there are various videos you can look up about the incident that go into more details, of course.

While the Southwest incident was probably much less severe and may have involved other factors (the investigative report is not out yet as far as I know) this is an example of a fatal crash that killed several US Airforce service members:

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/remembering-shell-77-the-kc-135-that-crashed-in-kyrgyzstan-while-it-was-departing-for-combat-aerial-refueling-mission/
7/26/2024 7:20 PM
Anonymous said…
There are stories now, as you know that the astronauts on the space station may need to stay until 2025 and take a return trip on a non-Boeing craft.

Both of the so-called stranded astronauts have been in outer space for several hundred days each during the course of their career and seem quite happy now to add to that, and they are evidently in no immediate danger and have enough food until the next ship arrives : it will have two empty seats for their return which will be packed with additional supplies for the remainder of the stay until all 4 return next year.
8/10/2024 5:07 PM
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