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Air Asia makes faux pas
A Malaysia-bound AirAsia X plane which took off from Sydney ended up in Melbourne after the pilot entered the aircraft\'s wrong longitudinal position, safety officials revealed Wednesday.
Sydney: A Malaysia-bound AirAsia X plane which took off from Sydney ended up in Melbourne after the pilot entered the aircraft's wrong longitudinal position, safety officials revealed Wednesday.
The Airbus A330-300 left Sydney en route to Kuala Lumpur on March 10 last year but air traffic controllers went on alert after it began flying in the wrong direction.
They radioed the crew but attempts to fix the problem only led to "further degradation of the navigation system, as well as to the aircraft's flight guidance and flight control systems", the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said following an investigation.
The pilot, who had been flying A330s for 18 months, decided to return to Sydney but bad weather forced him to fly manually to Melbourne, where he landed safely, it said.
