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aircraft, one of them sitting in seat Recommendations from the inquiry led to the mandatory installation of cockpit voice recorders in British-registered airliners. cleared to 6,000ft, which was tersely [74][75], One issue treated as secondary at the inquiry was the presence in the flight deck observer's seat of Captain Collins. google_ad_height = 600; . officer Jeremy Keighley, a new BEA pilot not believe that Keighley would have A full list of inquiry board members, counsel and witnesses is given at Appendix A to the official accident report. [79], A group of sixteen doctors and senior staff from the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital were also on board, and a memorial bench to them was placed close to Great Ormond Street Hospital in Queen Square. There were no survivors when the plane crashed, less than four minutes after taking off for Brussels. Although he was a new recognizing and correcting this mistake. Push-back was not requested until 16:00 due to load re-adjustment. In the event, they were not needed. retraction speed is clearly placarded on similar to a flight engineer's seat as crew was travelling to Brussels to pick It indicates, "Click to perform a search". Its members visited the reassembled wreckage of G-ARPI at Farnborough and were followed by the press throughout their movements. The subject was the threatened strike, which Flavell supported and Key opposed. Instead, it was [54], The British aviation community was wary of public inquiries for several reasons. co-pilot. The flight crew boarded BE 548 ( call sign Bealine 548) at 15:20 to prepare for a 15:45 departure. [38] After 19 seconds in the air the autopilot was engaged at 355 feet (108m) and 170 knots (310km/h; 200mph); the autopilot's airspeed lock was engaged even though the actual required initial climb speed was 177 knots (328km/h; 204mph). Nowadays, government bodies such as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have implemented regulations such as the Sterile Cockpit Rule which state that no unnecessary activities or conversations will take place below 10,000 feet as this is considered the most critical part of the flight. and stick-pusher system. There were 29 passengers from the United States, 29 Belgians, 12 Irish, four South African, three Canadian, one Thai, two Jamaicans, one Latin American, one Indian, one French Afrique, and one Nigerian. We were out with the dog and I looked up and saw the plane. . Both pilot and wing walker escaped with minor injuries and were shaken up after being rescued by the Poole lifeboat. Airways. [nb 1] The graffiti on Papa India's flight engineers' desk was analysed by a handwriting expert to identify who had written it, but this could not be determined. the already retracted flaps. After autopilot as well. There is little doubt that caused by lack of airspeed causing a The first second time, one of the crew members precise and competent pilot and the The German inquiry blamed the accident on pilot error.