Mexico finds glaring errors in July airliner crash
Posted February 26, 2019 5:14 pm.
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MEXICO CITY — Investigators found a series of glaring errors in an Aeromexico flight that crashed in July, injuring many of the 103 people aboard. Nobody died when the plane belly flopped after takeoff.
Among the findings was that a trainee pilot who was at the controls of the flight until five seconds before the crash did not have permission to be there and hadn’t completed simulator tests needed to train on working flights.
The captain who allowed him to take the controls was not qualified as an instructor. All the pilots were fired.
The plane was brought down by apparent wind shear and a sudden downdraft known as a microburst.
But the report published this week found the pilot wasn’t paying enough attention to the weather because he was watching the trainee.
The Associated Press
