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Chargement... No Man's Land: the untold story of automation and QF72 (édition 2019)par Kevin Sullivan (Auteur)
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"Instinctively, I release my pressure on the sidestick. Out of my subconscious, a survival technique from a previous life emerges: Neutralise! I'm not in control so I must neutralise controls. I never imagined I'd use this part of my military experience in a commercial airliner ... On routine flight QF72 from Singapore to Perth on 7 October 2008, the primary flight computers went rogue, causing the plane to pitch down, nose first, towards the Indian Ocean - twice. The Airbus A330 carrying 315 passengers and crew was out of control, with violent negative G forces propelling anyone and anything untethered through the cabin roof. It took the skill and discipline of veteran US Navy Top Gun Kevin Sullivan, captain of the ill-fated flight, to wrestle the plane back under control and perform a high-stakes emergency landing at a RAAF base on the WA coast 1200 kilometres north of Perth. In No Man's Land , the captain of the flight tells the full story for the first time. It's a gripping, blow-by-blow account of how, along with his co-pilots, Sullivan relied on his elite military training to land the gravely malfunctioning plane and narrowly avert what could have been a horrific air disaster. As automation becomes the way of the future, and in the aftermath of Ethiopian Airlines flight 961 and Lion Air flight JT610, the story of QF72 raises important questions about how much control we relinquish to computers and whether more checks and balances are needed."--Back cover. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I really loved the technical details and the structure of the book. The author, being the captain of the occurrence aircraft, obviously remembers the event well and explains clearly how the event occurred. I appreciated his honesty about his PTSD and how much strength of character it showed to hang up his wings even though *technically* he was flying OK again.
I also found it really interesting when he made the analogy between this incident and similar incidents in autonomous road vehicles. In Sullivan’s occurrence, he was able to land the plane BECAUSE he was so highly trained in specialized flying manoeuvres and as a commercial pilot had the stuffing trained out of him every six months to stay current. Automobile drivers stop being tested when they’re 18 and don’t get tested again until they’re 80—what hope in hell do they have when all of their systems fail and actively turn against them?
This is highly interesting for people who like to watch Mayday or read about aviation, especially in Australia. ( )