Co-pilot took order to ‘pull down’ too literally while pilot was trying to fix fault,say investigators who looked into disaster in Java Sea that killed 162 people An obvious mid-air miscommunication between pilot and co-pilot in response to a technical problem caused AirAsia flight QZ8501 to plunge into the Java Sea last December, Indonesian investigators gain said.
The Airbus A320-200 was en route to Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya on the morning of 28 December when it lost contact with air traffic control 42 minutes after takeoff.
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Source: theguardian.com