Mayday - Heading to Disaster - Ethiopian Airlines 409
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- Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409
Boeing 737
January 25th, 2010 - En route to Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 takes off from Beirut, Lebanon, with 90 people on board. As the plane climbs to cruising altitude, tower controllers ask the pilots to turn on to a new heading. The pilots acknowledge the instruction. But just moments later, the plane spirals out of control and crashes into the Mediterranean Sea. Several witnesses report seeing an explosion at the time of the crash leading investigators to suspect terrorism. But after almost two years of investigation they reach a very different and controversial conclusion.
Cause: Pilot Error and Spatial Orientation
VERY SAD ,IT WAS B737 800!
Pilot Error probably and it was an EX Ryanair too
unfunny joke
The immediate assumption that there was a bomb onboard the plane cuz it's flying from Lebanon really pains me as a Lebanese. It was a pilot error.
OMG
What was the cause?
bomb
Flight crew error.
The storm
Disputed.
The Lebanese Civil Aviation Authority investigated the accident, with the assistance of the BEA, Boeing, and the National Transportation Safety Board of the United States.[25][26]
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman stated before the flight data recorders were found that the crash was not due to terrorism.[27] Lebanese Information Minister Tarek Mitri rejected the notion that the aircraft should not have been allowed to take off under the current weather conditions, stating that "many" other aircraft had taken off during the time period.[28]
The final investigation report released by the Lebanese Ministry of Public Works and Transport, presented on 17 January 2012, stated that "the probable causes of the accident were the flight crew's mismanagement of the aircraft's speed, altitude, headings and attitude through inconsistent flight control inputs resulting in a loss of control and their failure to abide by CRM [Crew Resource Management] principles of mutual support and calling deviations".[29]
Ethiopian Airlines stated the airline "strongly refutes" the report, and that it "was biased, lacking evidence, incomplete and did not present the full account of the accident". The airline wrote in a press release issued the same day as the investigation report that the halting of flight data and cockpit voice recording at 1,300 feet, the disappearance of the aircraft from radar at that time, and the eyewitness reports of a fireball "clearly indicate that the aircraft disintegrated in the air due to explosion, which could have been caused by a shoot-down, sabotage, or lightning strike."[30][31][32][33] The Lebanese CAA report had noted that eyewitnesses, including an air traffic controller and a crew flying in the vicinity of Flight 409, had reported seeing an "orange light", "an orange explosion", or "a ball of fire" at the time and toward the location the aircraft crashed into the sea; but concluded "No sign of any explosion or fire were detected on the wreckage" or "during the autopsies carried on some of the bodies".[29] It speculated that the impression of an explosion may have been caused by the aircraft lights during the aircraft's last steep dive; or by the "thunderstorm activities in the area".[29]