Talk:1958 BOAC Bristol Britannia crash

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--JeffGBot (talk) 18:28, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Pilot error

"The Britannia aircraft was fitted with a 3-handed altimeter which required a higher degree of concentration to read correctly than was desirable. The crew misread the instrument believing that they were at 11,500 feet when they began descending, when in fact they were only at 1,500 feet" - sounds like design fault, so how is this "pilot error"? No references, so unable to check what the source says. Socrates2008 (Talk) 09:41, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Its claimed that the crew just misread them, I have added an aftermath section describing the withdrawl of these altimeters in British aircraft after the accident. MilborneOne (talk) 13:39, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

In that case, shouldn't, "... they were at a much higher altitude and that they were reading the instruments correctly." be revised to, "...they were at a much higher altitude and that they were reading the instruments incorrectly."? ☺ Dick Kimball (talk) 16:58, 12 September 2016 (UTC)