An error in the cockpit may have caused the horrifying dive that occurred earlier this week on a LATAM Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner. As opposed to any innate defect in the Boeing aircraft, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Citing anonymous US business representatives who were briefed on the investigation’s preliminary findings. According to the article, while serving a lunch, a flight attendant might have unintentionally turned on a switch on the pilot’s seat.
Latam Flight Mid-Air Drop
On Monday, while travelling from Sydney, Australia to Auckland, New Zealand, the Chilean airline LATAM abruptly broke apart. Throwing unrestrained passengers from their seats and shattering several of them against the cabin ceiling.
Source: CNN
Thirteen of the fifty injured individuals required hospitalization. The disaster was ascribed by the airline on Tuesday to an unidentified “technical event.”
How this incident took place?
However, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that a crew member’s carelessness was the reason behind the mishap, citing US industry insiders.
According to the report, a motorized function on the pilot’s seat was accidentally turned on as a meal was being served, pushing the pilot into the controls and precipitously lowering the nose of the aircraft.
The representative went on, “The Latam aircraft, which had a sudden descent, returned to Chile with only crew members aboard and is currently stationed at Santiago’s airport.”
After a fuselage panel on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX airplane broke apart in midair on January 5, Boeing is being investigated for unrelated manufacturing flaws and safety issues.
