Are there any planes that have switches in that location that need to be flipped during that phase of flight? Wondering if the captain's muscle memory could have triggered an old 'wheels off the ground, flip switches behind throttles" default reaction.
These are all good questions and ones that have been raised by others. There's nothing in that area that needs to be touched during flight. Even if so, there's not much that you do other than raise the gear 3 sec after rotation. The truth is, we may never know with 100% certainty. But it's a 99% chance that a human hand in the cockpit turned off those switches. It's annoying that the news chooses to write their stories to make it sound like it's some cheap switch thrown into the cockpit just waiting to be accidentally flipped. The Boeing hate is strong on the internet. I had to give it a break. Plus I have VIR in a few weeks so time to start getting worked up about that!
Their woke shit brought that on I'm sure the engineers and techs on the floor putting these planes together want to do a good job, management seemed to be the ones that lost focus
Huge lawsuit...only from the EU/Western Families....I bet they settle for about $23.50 ea for the Indian passengers. Life is pretty cheap there.
Air India pilot slams a newish 737 Max into the runway in Phuket. https://x.com/manaman_chhina/status/2031765163209261473?s=20
My dad was on a flight that had a wing strike in Feb. He was a little shaken up and it sounded like a pretty rough ride for a few minutes. From what he described, the pilot used the opposite rudder in the crosswind then got all jacked up. Luckily they did a go around.
I'm honestly shocked at the amount of videos of airliners screwing up a basic crosswind landing- We need to mandate 15 hours in taildraggers as part of initial training!
