Let’s get out fast but let’s not step (onto) each other.'” “They were like, `OK, let’s be orderly here.
“People were not rushing out fighting for their lives,” he said.
“There is no way to get from a normal airspeed and normal position at 500 feet to an abnormally slow airspeed at 300 feet unless there wasn’t enough thrust either deliberately or inadvertently,” he said. Hersman didn’t say whether the Asiana’s autothrottle was engaged.īob Coffman, an American Airlines captain who has flown 777s, said the only way he could think of for Asiana plane to slow as quickly at the NTSB has described would be if somehow the autothrottle has shifted into the idle mode.
In the 777, turning the autothrottle on is a two-step process – first it is armed, then it is engaged, Boeing pilots said.Ĭhoi Jeong-ho, a senior official at South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said investigators confirmed the auto throttle was in an armed position, and an exact analysis on whether the automatic throttle system worked will be possible after an analysis on the plane’s black box. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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