Another Failed Airliner Cover-Up
"Faulty altimeter cited in fatal crash" by International Herald Tribune | March 5, 2009
PARIS - A faulty altimeter contributed to the fatal crash last week of a Turkish Airlines jet that plunged into a field on its approach to Schipol Airport in Amsterdam, Dutch officials said yesterday. They added that they had asked
The Dutch Safety Board, which is investigating the Feb. 25 accident, said one of the aircraft's two radio altimeters, an instrument that gauges a plane's altitude, sent a wrong reading to the automatic pilot system, resulting in an abrupt loss of airspeed.
You buying that, readers? I'm not.
Witnesses said the Boeing 737-800 aircraft, carrying 135 people, appeared to drop like a stone. It landed first on its tail, then slammed into the ground, skidded on its belly and broke into three parts just short of the runway. Nine people on flight TK1951 from Istanbul, including the three pilots, were killed.
Boeing said yesterday that it was reminding its 737 operators to "carefully monitor primary flight instruments during critical phases of flight."--more--"
