Syria And FLT 737 'Systems Analysis' Failures

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling On January 8, 1989, a British Midlands 737 was in flight from London to Belfast when the captain and copilot heard a loud bang and began to feel the airframe shake violently. Coupled with the smell of overheated metal, they both suspected engine problems. After checking engine control panels and instruments, the captain switched off the autopilot and pulled back on the throttle to the right-hand engine, wherewith, the vibration and noise eased greatly. As a result, they started to assume their systems analysis of the complexity of flying a plane and many mechanical unknowns were solved.(1) Fast-forward to the recent U.S. Pentagon announcement it...