Boeing 737 Max 9s grounded after panel break
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The wording is vague, but was the main pilot female?
Not that it was her fault that the panel blew off.
The Buffalo crash in Dec. of 2009 is the last one iirc.
I remember that because it made my fear of flying worse in winter weather.
Anecdote no one asked for: I think I accidentally cured my fear of flying with a dose of magic mushrooms one time. I flew out of Vancouver the next day and ever since then... it's just... been gone. My wife remarks on every flight since that my palms aren't even sweaty anymore.
Funny enough, shrooms caused the mental breakdown that lead the jumpseat pilot to shut down the engines on Alaska Airlines flight 2059, almost crashing the plane.
Check out the story about TNFlyGirl. Social media harlot with an aviation license that got herself and her father killed in a crash.
She shopped around flight schools to find a cuck that would pass her even though she didn't have any grasp of flight dynamics whatsoever, and then immediately took to advertising her Grrl Power on the internet for clout instead of, you know, actually treating piloting an aircraft with the seriousness it deserves.
Hey, that sounds exactly like Amelia Earhart! Shitty pilot (notoriously bad in aviation circles) who was promoted because she was pretty and photogenic.
Amelia's navigator and radioman Fred Noonan was reportedly one of the only people who would fly with her. He had a well known drinking problem and was seen drunk on the day they departed.
Amelia didn't know how to operate her own radios. She could not use Morse Code. She did not follow the guidance signals from the coast guard.
By all accounts she missed the tiny island that was her refueling stop and crashed on an atoll.
Now do Kara Hultgreen.
Oh wait. Here is a very authoritive video on the subject.
https://youtu.be/rFUXshaaMQM?si=mIFckmrr9DlJHxJW
I watched several videos about her since the crash.
She had just bought a new plane more intricate then the one she trained on.
She didn't understand how her new autopilot and trim worked in detail.
Once the two got out of sync, she couldn't correct it manually and undulated until they hit the ground.
Was just talking about her with a pilot buddy. Saw some of her videos before her crash (she flew the type of plane a cousin wants to buy), and noped out of her channel because of how clueless she was.
If you trace the causal chain back far enough, what lead to her crash was the government's inept response to the Colgan Air crash, in which the 1,500 rule was created. Because pilots now need 1,500 hours in order to be hired as a commercial airline pilot, every person with aspirations to becoming an airline pilot immediately becomes an instructor in order to build up their hours. So flight schools are inundated with "instructors" who have hardly any flying experience, and hardly any experience instructing students in any capacity. Her first instructor was too dumb to be up in the air teaching anyone to fly. Which is why she had the skills of a 40 hour pilot at 400 hours.
It's not just pilots that cause issues. Apparently, there was a black air traffic controller in Texas who caused a massive mess, and who was then rehired or something? I don't quite remember, but it was bad.
Kobe's pilot was a white dude.