AirAsia Flight 8501 Cause Of Crash Not 'Pilot's Error', Says Airbus Captain. With harsh weather and time running out, the Indonesian Navy team and foreign ships huddling to complete the AirAsia Flight 8501 recovery efforts have switched the search to a new direction after widening the search area for more bodies and the tail of the plane. So far 37 bodies have been found and five large objects, but the search team is still unsure where the tail end of the plane is.
There are still no answers to how the AirAsia Flight QZ 8501 may have crashed into the Java Sea and some rescue personal say that the black box may be buried in the sea bed. Time is running out for finding the flight recorders or the Black Box found in the tail end of AirAsia, since the recorder stops sending signals after a month from detaching from the plane and ten days have already gone by in the search for bodies, debris and the Black Box.
The AirAsia QZ 8501 was tackling icy weather conditions and experts are weighing in on why the plane crashed on its way from Surabaya to Singapore. One pilot, Bill Palmer has come to the defense of the AirAsia QZ 8501 pilot after The Independent published that Indonesian investigators would consider 'pilot's error' as a possible cause for the aviation disaster.
"The captain of the Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 that crashed into the sea during a thunderstorm likely knew the lessons from the 2009 Air France plane crash, a pilot has said amid increasing focus on human error in the comparisons of both disasters," an Airbus A330 captain, Bill Palmer wrote on CNN's US news network.
The Airbus pilot explained, the aircraft's probes become frozen under icy weather and the QZ 8510 system could have been tricked to manage a situation that mimics the aircraft is nearing a stalled position. But in actuality it isn't. As the probes freeze, the Airbus has stall protections kick the aircraft into a nose dive to recover.
Captain Palmer told the MalayMailOnline, "Clues from the way in which airplane parts were damaged on impact and the flight data and voice recorder contents will provide answers. But like any aircraft accident, the cause is likely to be the result of a chain of events and conditions, the absence of any one of which would have avoided this tragic accident," he added.
Reuters reported that aviation officials speculate it could take up two weeks to obtain the black boxes due to bad weather and delays in search operations.
