Despite bad weather an irresponsible Airline Captain put a lesser experienced pilot in charge of a short-haul flight in Hawaii, which almost ended in crashing into the Ocean.
This kind of flawed decision by an experienced airline Captain, is nothing less than playing Russian Roulette with the lives of passengers. This must never happen again! Further, there has to be serious consequences for both.
"A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft came within 400 feet of slamming into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai after weather conditions forced pilots to swiftly change course.
A Southwest Airlines memo to pilots, obtained by Bloomberg News, detailed Southwest Flight 2786 from the April 11 flight from Honolulu International Airport to Lihue Airport in Kauai.
Passengers were left white-knuckled after the aircraft dropped from nearly 16,000 feet to an altitude of 409 feet.
According to the Southwest memo, the incident occurred following an aborted landing attempt due to bad weather that blocked pilots from seeing the runway at the specified altitude.
The memo noted that the captain opted to put the "newer" first officer in command of the 100-mile inter-island flight, despite the pending weather.
The less-experienced first officer "inadvertently" pushed forward on the control column, which controls the plane's pitch and roll, then cut the speed, causing the airplane to rapidly descend.
The pilot's aggressive movement prompted the warning system to sound the alarm that the passenger aircraft was getting too close to the terrain."
It appears, this so-called second in command was far from being ready to fly this aircraft, nor any other. Any amateur pilot knows pushing forward on the control column puts the nose down!
https://www.foxnews.com/us/southwest-airlines-flight-hawaiian-island-plunges-comes-within-400-feet-pacific-ocean-report.
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