ANA 737-700 rolled 131.7' !?!?!?

[rrohtake]

This is not a 'sim' but in real. I've heard very sharp turns in a demo flight but not 90'+ and especially with 137 passengers. Thank goodness the bird safely landed without any injury.

http://www.terminalu.com/travel-news...-switch/15617/

[andyjohnston]

People make mistakes, but mistaking the rudder trim for the cockpit door switch is a big one. He'll be lucky to get away with it.

[Paxx]

Here is another link.
http://gizmodo.com/5844628/a-passeng...f-a-dumb-pilot

[Firekitten]

Rolled that far that fast? suprising. I've seen a 747 roll, and ive known that one DC10 did a 360, but to manage 130 degrees before numbnuts copilot managed to rectify it?

I'm not a big iron jock, does fiddling with the trim settings on a 73 disconect otto like yanking on the yoke?

[Avechelice]

Hello,

No problems .. Boeing airplanes are constructed for aerobatics ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KNbKFMBsQE
Seem's to me a ANA courtesy bonus as flying experience for those B737 passengers

Regards.

[InsyleM]

Dont they have bank angle warnings? OR The Flight control Computers to limit the bank or anything like that?

[Avechelice]

Hello,

Dont they have bank angle warnings?

Do you know a pilot named Warnings ?

control Computers to limit the bank

Boeing is not to confuse with Airbus
Anyways .. the AP was certainly disengaged cause the sudden maneuver

Regards

[eezeejet]

Aviation Herald article:

http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4428f2f7&opt=0

I've heard of plenty of errors in the flight deck, but almost rolling a 737 over with 137 people on board while trying to open the cockpit door because the F/O turned the wrong knob, that's a different matter. Funny how tiny, simple errors like that can have such big consequences up there. Glad they landed safely and nobody's badly hurt.

[tigisfat]

I can believe very much that it could happen before you could correct it. Full rudder trim doesn't just roll, it would make a SNAP roll that could get you there in a hurry. The autopilot could've fought the recovery for a moment or two before it was all fixed.

[louross]

Problem is, the reporter says he flipped the wrong switch. When did Boeing go from rotary knobs to switches for rudder trim control?