Cape Times Article on crash. 6-9-04

[Capn Lucky]

Hey Chper...

Did you get my PM?

 

[saabcaptain]

I realize I'm a little partial against the company on this one, but can someone tell me what the FUK the above quote means? Can anyone come up with one good reason to send an airplane on a ferry flight after a comment like that was made?

the call to "turn around" was due to dispatch perhaps needing the aircraft in another base that night, and the ferry destination changing. the article says so. it is read out of context when you just see it as a CVR thing.

 

[chperplt]

the call to "turn around" was due to dispatch perhaps needing the aircraft in another base that night, and the ferry destination changing. the article says so. it is read out of context when you just see it as a CVR thing.

I really wish people would get there heads out of the sand..

The article was written in the correct context.

The airplane COULD NOT have been sent to another base. It was not an operational turn around... It was a you might have a problem and need to "turn around". The airplane was going to ALB to have the entire trim system rigged to repair the blunder that the HYA crew made.

THIS WAS A FERRY FLIGHT... NOT A REPO

 

[Capn Lucky]

Was a ferry permit issued?

 

[chperplt]

Was a ferry permit issued?

I don't know... But I do know that it didn't have an airworthy release.

 

[BRA]

If they just rolled the trim the opposite way would they have made it? Or was it just more messed up then just hooked up backwards? I know it was a 91 flight, and none of us go perfectly by the book each second, but where are the before start, after start, taxi, and before takeoff checklists? Takeoff roll was the only part that sounded standard to me.

 

[chperplt]

I don't know what the outcome would have been had they rolled the trim back.. My understanding is that one of the actuators was found to be jammed.

Keep in mind that you're only reading a cut and paste of the CVR on the newspaper site.

 

[RED SIX]

And they wonder down in MNZ why the people are leaving in droves. It's this blatant disregard for maintenance and the people who are flying these buckets of rusty bolts that they continue to have, even after two good pilots and employees lost their lives. And its astonishing because one more thing and 500 people are going to be looking for a new job. But THEY DON'T CARE, all that matters is the completion rate. But if anybody is interested i have a nice sized stack of questionable DR releases available to the highest bidder, CHPRLT i will let you open the bidding.

 

[chperplt]

But if anybody is interested i have a nice sized stack of questionable DR releases available to the highest bidder, CHPRLT i will let you open the bidding.

I kept all my questionable documentation..