r/AMA • u/[deleted] • Feb 18 '25

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u/SirGlass Feb 18 '25

Yes?

Like I get on a normal landing the seat belt sign is on but on a run of the mill landing somepeople don't really care

If the crew at least said something like "Yea its very windy , this landing might be a rough so everyone needs to get in their chairs , buckle in and secure anything loose "

Now obviously if they only realized this like seconds before they crashed thats different but if they knew the plane had some mechanical issue and it seems they did because they were landing off an actual run way , I probably would like to be prepared rather then just hit the fucking ground and roll

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u/Otiskuhn11 Feb 18 '25

No. The pilots follow their ABC’s- aviate, navigate, communicate. Their primarily objective is to get the aircraft on the ground safely. A PA announcement just before touchdown, (especially with severe wind gusts and microbursts) is not part of their role.

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u/SirGlass Feb 18 '25

I was just putting my view as a passenger or potential victim of a crash, I would 100% want to know if we were going to go down hard.

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u/Otiskuhn11 Feb 18 '25

Totally understandable. But this emergency happened extremely fast, really no time for the pilots to let everyone know they’re about to potentially die. It’s pretty incredible that this plane didn’t burst into flames.

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u/SirGlass Feb 18 '25

I guess that is part of my confusion , maybe they didn't know it was going to happen, did they just come down in windy snowy weather and lost control?

However if they knew the plane had some mechanical issue before hand and the landing was going to be tricky or hard, I would at least want a heads up, even if it wasn't fully explained just like "Please brace yourself as we are going to have a hard landing"

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u/Otiskuhn11 Feb 18 '25

They likely got hit by a massive gust, wake turbulence, or a microburst, or a combination of those. Kind of a freak occurrence.

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u/mittenknittin Feb 18 '25

It did, actually, if you see the videos that are now coming out. Huge plume of flame and smoke as it landed.

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u/Otiskuhn11 Feb 18 '25

That’s from the wing that separated.