Wrong Right-Seater

摘要

On Feb. 23, 2019, at 1239 CST (1839Z), Atlas Air Inc. (Atlas) Flight 3591, a Boeing 767-375BCF, dived from 6,000 ft. into a shallow, muddy marsh area of Trinity Bay some 34 mi. east-southeast of George Bush/Houston Intercontinental Airport (KIAH) while on approach to that airport. The captain, first officer and a nonrevenue pilot riding in the jump seat died and the cargo aircraft was destroyed on impact. After a 16-month investigation the NTSB determined the probable cause of this accident was "the inappropriate response by the first officer as the pilot flying to an inadvertent activation of the go-around mode, which led to his spatial disorientation and nose-down control inputs that placed the airplane in a steep descent from which the crew did not recover. "Contributing to the accident was the captain's failure to adequately monitor the airplane's flightpath and assume positive control of the airplane to effectively intervene.