An increasing problem now in the airline industry, is that the aircraft are so automated that a lot of senior management even in good airlines believe the aircrew do not need to be so highly trained. The problem here is when something goes wrong, there's often very little time for the crew to react before they get into serious trouble. An excellent example of this is Air France flight 447, but its by no means the only one. Its an increasing cause of airline aircraft accidents.

woodford

Issue is, like above, the training for specific events is as only good as the imagination of what a pilot maybe faced with and available training time for such events.

However what alot pilots lack from many countries is General Aviation experience due to a local ban on General Aviation for political reasons.  This experience is something that many pilots have fallen back on when they have been in a major crisis and either relied on this to land their plane safely or at least minimize the losses.

The plane was on a climb out from departure not landing if I read it right so how much of the control and systems would have been in play ?

The plane was on a climb out from departure not landing if I read it right so how much of the control and systems would have been in play ?

I thought at this stage of the flight it was on auto pilot or at least auto throttle.

The plane was on a climb out from departure not landing if I read it right so how much of the control and systems would have been in play ?

I thought at this stage of the flight it was on auto pilot or at least auto throttle.

The only 'good thing' that has come out regarding this event is that the aircraft was still on RADAR and the crash site quickly located unlike MH370 that 'disappeared' some 4 years ago.
Sadly there were no survivors even though the crash area was reached quickly.

I wonder in that time since MH370 and seeing this was a brand new aircraft, was it fitted with a constant transmitting transponder enabling its location to be observed at all times during the flight?

At the moment there has been no indication as to why the Aircraft Crashed but one of the 'Black Box' recorders has been located which we hope can tell what happened and perhaps help to prevent something similar happening again.

The only 'good thing' that has come out regarding this event is that the aircraft was still on RADAR and the crash site quickly located unlike MH370 that 'disappeared' some 4 years ago.
Sadly there were no survivors even though the crash area was reached quickly.

I wonder in that time since MH370 and seeing this was a brand new aircraft, was it fitted with a constant transmitting transponder enabling its location to be observed at all times during the flight?

At the moment there has been no indication as to why the Aircraft Crashed but one of the 'Black Box' recorders has been located which we hope can tell what happened and perhaps help to prevent something similar happening again.

The aircraft was being tracked by radar, this means the aircrafts normal transponder was working, this also reports height and speed. The flight was also being tracked by ADS-B. which means this was also fitted to the aircraft, this is completely independent of the Transponder and gives the aircrafts, height speed, heading and vertical speed every minute. As the flights pitch and velocity is availible in much detail it appears it is VERY likely the aircraft was transmitting engineering data to a maintenance centre somewhere. The latter two fitting being recommendations from flight Mh370.

woodford

Serious questions are being asked now that another Boeing 737-Max has crashed in what appears to be similar circumstances in Ethiopia today;
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/ethiopian-airlines-plane-crashes-with-deaths-and-casualties-unconfirmed/news-story/bed7d1e1a89f6fc015fa795817b914d3

I suspect we might see a grounding of all 400+ 737-Max planes any moment now...