I cringe every time I hear that audio
Firstly there's something about hearing the word 'Mayday' over the radio which always sends a shiver up the spine, but also because while the ATC controller was the very model of presence of mind under extreme stress, the BA crew completely fluffed it.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 17 Jul 2012, 21:32,
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Hardly.
Crash landing caused by uncommanded thrust reduction - root cause found to be ice formation in the fuel/oil heat exchanger restricting the fuel flow.
CFIT covers accidents where the plane is airworthy, but unintentionally flown into the ground. Probably the most famous example being the Mount Erebus crash.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 17 Jul 2012, 22:09,
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What was the "95... 95..." bit?
Someone on Youtube asked that too. Did the pilot just get his call-sign wrong?
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JamTallons, Tue 17 Jul 2012, 22:27,
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That was arguably a flaw in BA's training procedures
In the simulators at that point BA always used the callsign Speedbird 95. Not sure why, maybe it didn't conflict with any of their actual callsigns. Whatever the reason, it meant that whenever the pilots trained for emergency situations, they were always using the same callsign.
Unfortunately, this meant that when the crew reverted to their learned procedures, they also unwittingly reverted to the callsign they were using in the sim. BA revised their training procedures as soon as this came to light.
The full AAIB report is worth a read:
www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/1-2010%20G-YMMM.pdf
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 17 Jul 2012, 22:50,
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