On December 24, 2014, AirAsia Flight 8501 took off from Surabaya (Indonesia) at 5.30 am native time. With 155 passengers and seven crew members onboard, the flight was headed to Singapore. About 43 minutes into its flight, the Airbus A320 disappeared from the radar. The worst had come to move. Two days later, the rescue crew found the airplane wreckage in Java sea. All 162 folks onboard perished within the crash.
The crash investigation revealed that it was a pilot error. The in-command Captain Iriyanto – a 53-year outdated former Indonesian Air Power pilot – carried out a non-standard reset of the onboard flight management computer systems. Which suggests he did one thing which was not talked about anyplace in any of the working manuals.
Why would somebody with an expertise of greater than 20,000 flight hours do such a factor?
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