Podcast: Understanding a Cockpit in Crisis

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • The Air France Flight 447 investigation highlighted training and automation issues, but lacked insight into the in-cockpit experience during severe nighttime oceanic storms.
  • To gain this perspective, experienced airline pilot Jason Goldberg was interviewed.
  • Goldberg was asked to describe the in-cockpit environment during storms over the ocean at night and what occurs when aircraft systems fail.
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The investigation into the crash of Air France Flight 447 has sparked comments on training and automation, but it hasn’t provided much insight into the in-cockpit environment of a commercial airliner flying through storms over the ocean at night. For that, we asked 15,000-plus hour airline pilot Jason Goldberg. Then we asked him to describe what happens when systems fail.

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