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Infamously, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191#Accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191#A... This flight had
by mrguyorama 13d ago
Infamously, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191#Accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191#A...
This flight had a new system to allow passengers to see what the pilots saw. There's a chance that the passengers got to see the panic in the cockpit and watch their fates coming.
I have seen claims that this caused such systems to be avoided for a while.
- 00N8 13d agoThat's a nasty crash, but I feel like having one wing stall & the plane roll past 90° from below 500 ft AGL would be equally traumatic whether or not you could see the cockpit view.