Turkey Crash Update
March 4, 2009 – 2:17 pmPreliminary reports suggest that a faulty altimeter contributed to the crash last month. Given the misty weather, the plane was on autopilot. As the airplane descended the faulty altimeter recorded a false -8 feet reading causing the engines to shut down as the autopilot thought the plane would have landed at that height. The pilots realized but were unable to restart the engines before the plane crashed.
Given the plane was still in the air, Boeing should likely look at some system redesigns to prevent this from happening again.
