Having recently got an iPhone, I can relate.

But, on the whole, I find it incredibly smart. If you make a mistake, it changes it to a word whose letter’s are in a similar position on the keyboard.
I could write something completely nonsensical like “Jsoot Virtgsau” and it would correctly change it to “Happy Birthday”.

I think some of those auto-correct errors were deliberately placed.

Some cracking shots Neil, well done! 🙂 I love the framing in the first few, and you are right – the 777 does look great in BA colours. An AA 777 is also a welcome sight to me any day of the week 😉

When I clicked on the images for a bigger picture, I noticed there’s quite a lot of camera shake? I don’t know what others would suggest? But perhaps a higher shutter speed?

Matt

EDIT: Actually, I think the culprit may be the F-Stop? It seems a little high to me.

Chances are they will be right again this time actually, for the trivial reason that statistically most modern airliners crash due to human error, but it’s still unprofessional in the extreme to present mere unconfirmed probabilities as fact.

It looks like they’ve changed their mind in the heat of mounting evidence. They’re now blaming the brakes

“The plane touched down in the proper landing area but for some reason was unable to stop on the strip. According to preliminary data, the pilots used all the brake systems available on the plane, but for some reason, the machine failed to stop and continued moving. Most likely, the cause was defective reverse engines or brakes.”
Federal Air Transport Agency chief Alexander Neradko said in televised remarks.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-30/bad-brakes-cited-in-moscow-crash-landing/4447876

To follow on from the amazing picture I posted earlier, taken whilst the aircraft was cruising just 2 hours before the crash… I now present to you an equally amazing video.

Just goes to show in today’s digital age, almost everything is caught on camera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dWONT47LFZM

But they were right, were they not?

Well, in that instance I guess they were right.

But (assuming flightradar24 is correct) the flight was landing at around 130 kts (which is fine) and the flight made an approach lower than that of the previous landing aircraft (so altitude was also fine).

Unless the crew forgot to select an appropriate auto-break setting (which is possible as I believe they were under stress, see previous post) then I don’t see where the crew went wrong?

The only possible conclusions I can draw for crew error is they forgot to apply the breaks or retard the throttles – both seem almost to obvious to mention, it’s practically built into these guys DNA.

RT Newswire are now reporting 4 dead. Such a shame, I actually had high hopes for the airline – I’ve been tracking its progress over the years from unknown obscurity to one the country’s largest charter airlines.

I know it is very early on in the investigation, but can I just throw out incorrect landing configuration as a possible cause – rather than mechanical/weather issues?
I’ve been looking at the flight path on flightradar24, it seems it started it’s descent from FL 330 awfully late (it was practically over the city). I don’t know if this is a standard descent and approach into Moscow? It’s rate of descent to the airport was alarming from FL200 to FL100.
So, it does make me wonder if the crew were in such a rush they missed some items off the check-list – hey, it’s happened before.
I can also see from the flight path that their final approach speed and altitude were fine.

http://www.flightradar24.com/#!/2012-12-29/11:50/RWZ9268
Of course, it’s all speculation at the moment.