Texas pilot’s last words before cargo
plane crash: ‘Lord, you have my soul’
by
Yaron Steinbuch
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/20/2019 11:03:30 AM
The tragic last words of one of the pilots killed in a Houston crash of a cargo plane contracted by Amazon earlier this year were, “Lord, you have my soul,” according to a chilling transcript of the cockpit voice recorder. Capt. Ricky Blakely, First Officer Conrad Jules Aska and Mesa Airlines Capt. Sean Archuleta, who was riding in the jump seat, were killed Feb. 23, when the Boeing 767 operated by Atlas Air plunged into Trinity Bay.(Snip) Aska, who had a record of repeatedly flunking flight tests, may have mistakenly thought the jet was stalling when its nose was pointed too high, so he jerked it down
Reply 1 - Posted by:
globalwarmer 12/20/2019 11:35:48 AM (No. 267569)
Diversity über alles!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 12/20/2019 11:40:11 AM (No. 267573)
Incompetent copilot doing the wrong things and not telling the pilot. Copilot had been fired several times for incompetence.
As more and more airlines require more pilots, and as the military requires fewer pilots, our system is breaking down. Military pilots get fired and that is the end of that. Civilian pilots get fired.....and seem to keep turning up until the crash a plane. There really needs to be some sort of a "once you flunk this checkride, you can't come back, ever" kind of deal.
Not everyone can actually be a skilled, safe pilot. It is a LOT worse in the third world, but too many pilots here are getting through the system without any actual piloting skills, but only with basic 'program the aircraft skills'. When anything goes wrong they are incompetent to figure it out and do the correct thing in the few seconds available. These types need to be forever barred from the cockpit.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 12/20/2019 11:47:17 AM (No. 267582)
Diversity was not their strength.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 12/20/2019 11:52:49 AM (No. 267585)
OK, after looking at the photos......I wonder how hard they even checked his background because he is a minority? Probably didn't look very hard. Pressure to hire "other than white males" is intense, and often overrides their actual skill set. In the insurance business, or retailing we can get past their lack of skills. In some jobs "less than the best" isn't good enough.
I know of one instance where a female USN aviator relative told me after a midair collision between two USN transport aircraft that she figured that it was highly likely that a particular female naval aviator was flying (known to be either pilot or copilot) one of the aircraft that disappeared over water when flying together in formation. The female USN aviator was known as pretty dangerous in formation flying, yet was getting by because of her sex, relentless political pressure on the Navy to get and retain women. My female naval aviator relative was upset at losing a number friends in that accident, very likely to an affirmative action hire who should have been washed out long before.
Affirmative action can't get you a waiver of the laws of physics.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
coldborezero 12/20/2019 12:02:48 PM (No. 267588)
I’m not sure who said this. I believe it was Mark Steyn, but WHO said it doesn’t change the TRUTH of it:
“Diversity is where nations go to die.”
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
HicoKid 12/20/2019 12:04:25 PM (No. 267592)
Article seems to blame copilot Aska for the crash, but the description of him putting the nose down and adding full power would have been the right thing to do (if in a stall).
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
gramma b 12/20/2019 1:27:43 PM (No. 267656)
Affirmative action kills -- not just societal standards, but people. A relative was at the top of his class at what is usually regarded as the top medical school in the country. He said that half the people in his class were scary and he wouldn't let them anywhere near his family.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/20/2019 1:59:09 PM (No. 267679)
Next time you're at an airport, take a really close look at all the crew walking from gate to gate... notice many of the foreign looking crew, even Captains... the airlines are hiring third-world pilots to make up for shortages and to ultimately drive wages down... and yes, many are from muslim countries. We learned nothing from 9-11, and air-freighters are even worse than airlines, since they pay squat and require back even less. The Boeing 767 has one of THE best safety records of any aircraft in aviation history. These pilots were not adequately trained. Atlas needs to be grounded.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Catherine 12/20/2019 2:35:05 PM (No. 267714)
His last words were beautiful.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 12/20/2019 3:01:10 PM (No. 267739)
Actually, #9, your comment on freighter pilot's pay, at least on the big outfits like FedEx and UPS, and such are extremely good, at least as good as the best pay at the major US airlines. I have a couple of airline pilot friends and they know "big name" freighter pilots who are extremely well paid, like above $200K, sometimes way above.
As to small "no name" air freighter companies and foreign freight air carriers.....no idea, expect that they pay as little as they can get away with.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
coldoc 12/20/2019 5:10:45 PM (No. 267829)
Watching the airline disasters show it is incredible how many are caused by pilot error or incompetence. It almost seems as if some cant read an artificial horizon or simply fly without an autopilot..
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/20/2019 6:28:42 PM (No. 267903)
Roger that #11, not for the big freighters, just the fish haulers.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 12/21/2019 9:05:45 AM (No. 268312)
If you would like to see exactly how incompetent this copilot actually was, here is the official information. The FO (first officer, often called copilot) work history and training failures is detailed here.
https://dms.ntsb.gov/public/63000-63499/63168/631156.pdf
He twice dropped out from training courses by different small airlines "for failure to progress".....basically couldn't handle the learning, couldn't understand what to do, how to do it. He failed numerous check rides and training classes, took lots of remedial training. He was incompetent, should have never been in the cockpit of anything more complex than one of those dime store planes for kids we had in the 50s and 60s that would humm and move a bit for a quarter.
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