Armenia air crash blamed on crew

Could this then be “loss of situational awareness” case then?

Yes…., but the fact remains, the crew had enough fuel to reach any number of alternates, were the weather was better, just a shame that they had to have “1 last go” at landing

Could this then be “loss of situational awareness” case then?

From what i read they turned of the auto pilot and were flying it manually

But even with the autopilots off, the envelope protection is still there.

The A320 isnt foolproof, as many a fool has crashed one.

Both attempts at landing were aborted with the crews turning the aircraft away from the approach centreline in a direction which took them over a expansive body of water – featureless terrain at the best of times, and in the dark especially difficult to use as a visual reference.

Without a visual reference, the ability to retain situational awareness of the aircraft’s attitude, movement and position by ordinary sensory perception is seriously impeded – hence the importance of pilots’ closely monitoring and trusting the information relayed by the aircraft’s instrument panel.

The circumstances provide a timely reminder to a simple fact which has been demonstrated in aviation time and again: if the aircraft isn’t doing what you think it’s doing, or isn’t where you think it is, then sooner or later there’s going to be trouble.

Forgive my ignorance, but I thought Airbus aircraft had some sort of envelope protection, designed to stop pilots from loosing control like this?
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From what i read they turned of the auto pilot and were flying it manually

Wow! I’ll bet the accident investigators didn’t think of that.

Good job we’ve got Sandy…… :rolleyes:

Forgive my ignorance, but I thought Airbus aircraft had some sort of envelope protection, designed to stop pilots from loosing control like this?

If so, wouldn’t it be fair to say that perhaps the flight software was also at fault? A 50/50 split maybe?

I stand to be corrected, naturally.