321 Sleep Inertia and False Glide Slope – Air India Flight 812 Crash + GA News
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🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Max talks about two critical factors, sleep inertia and false glide slopes, which played significant roles in an Air India Express accident. Despite being unrelated phenomena, they converged to contribute to the crash of Flight 812 in 2010. Air India Express, a low-cost airline operating in India, experienced its first fatal crash during this flight.
The aircraft, a Boeing 737, was returning from Dubai to Mangalore, India. However, the cockpit voice recorder revealed that the captain had been asleep for a significant portion of the flight, awakening only shortly before the crash. Compounded by issues such as inadequate descent planning and reliance on visual cues due to radar unavailability, the crew found themselves on an unstabilized approach, ignoring multiple warnings and calls for a go-around from the first officer. The aircraft ultimately overshot the runway.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you heard of sleep inertia and how it can impact your performance as a pilot? |
| 0:07.0 | And what about false glide slopes? Do you know how and where you might encounter them while |
| 0:12.0 | flying an instrument approach? Both of these phenomena played a key role in the fatal crash |
| 0:18.0 | of an Air Indy Express 737, and we'll talk about how these factors can affect |
| 0:22.2 | you as a GA pilot. Hello again, and welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk General Aviation. |
| 0:28.8 | My name is Max Truscott. I've been flying for, yeah, 50 years. I'm the author of several books |
| 0:33.7 | and the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year, and my mission is to help you become the safest |
| 0:38.9 | possible pilot. Last week, we talked about the crash of a business jet in Hot Springs, Virginia, |
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