How Did EVERYONE Miss THIS!? | Malaysian Airlines Flight 134
Why Aviation Stack Exchange recommends it
Aviation Stack Exchange users link it as a clear, layperson-friendly explanation of pitot-static systems, unreliable airspeed events and the A330 procedures involved.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2022 to 2024.
What it is
A Mentour Pilot accident reconstruction of Malaysia Airlines Flight 134, an A330-300 that began its takeoff roll at Brisbane in 2018 with no airspeed indication because the pitot tubes were still covered. The video walks through the investigation findings, the crew's response and the abnormal checklist they followed.
What people said
Recommends Bianfable · 2022-10 · Aviation Stack Exchange · on “Can a modern commercial passenger flight recover from failed sensor(s)?”
Additionally to AF447, there is this A330 incident [LINK] where all 3 airspeed inputs failed due to forgotten pitot covers. Mentour pilot did a video [this video] on it which might be of interest to you.
Recommends mishan · 2024-05 · Aviation Stack Exchange · on “Can a piece of duct tape bring down a plane today (Flight 603, 1996, Perú)?”
Mentour pilot has an accident reconstruction based on NTSB (or equivalent agency) findings for Malaysian Airlines Flight 134, which took off with pitot tubes covered whre he does a pretty nice explanation of the whole system for laymen - [this video] (the titles and intros are a bit over the top, but the content is top notch) - it is not precisely about static ports, but very related.
Cites TomMcW · 2022-04 · Aviation Stack Exchange · on “On the A330 why does switching off the ADRs require alternate LG extension and inhibit nose wheel steering?”
In the incident examined in this video [this video] the pilots experienced an unreliable airspeed indication due to pitot tube blockage in an A330. They followed the abnormal checklist for unreliable airspeed which instructed them to switch off all three ADRs. In the video it is mentioned that with the ADRs switched off that they had to use gravity extension of the landing gear, which caused one of the gear doors to briefly strike the runway. Also it inhibits nose wheel steering requiring a tug to get the plane off the runway. I can’t figure out why the lack of ADRs would affect these two systems. I know that gear extension would be inhibited above a certain airspeed, but it seems that switching