Niki Lauda has passed away
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Re: Niki Lauda has passed away
So sad, he couldn't tell death to f-off a second time. one of the very greats.
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Seiiki wrote:One of the events which stood out from my mind about Niki was his humility. In the aftermath of the Lauda Air incident in Bangkok which the Boeing 767 was destroyed with passengers and crews perished. Boeing immediately issued pilot error prior to the black box being found. Niki did not accepted the verdict, but he was keen to find out the actual cause itself. When the black box was found and the data of the flight being retrieved. Lauda insisted that Boeing stimulate the exact flight with the same passenger load and weather conditions. It found out that it was in fact a mechanical issue, from Boeing itself, which was the sole reason for the tragedy.
Niki insisted that he was doing it was not to avert the company's responsibility to compensate the victims' families. But he wanted to know 'exactly' what happened, just like any mechanical or driver's errors operating a Formula 1 car. He never pointed the blame but knowing the full extent of the problem, correcting it and making sure that it never happens again, was the only way to bring closure to the victims' survivors, but also for the aviation industry to learn from this tragic lesson.
It was in fact that one of the Thrust-reversers deployed shortly after take-off. Totally a mechanical malfunction.
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One of the greats. Say hi to James
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Re: Niki Lauda has passed away
Seiiki wrote:In the aftermath of the Lauda Air incident in Bangkok which the Boeing 767 was destroyed with passengers and crews perished. Boeing immediately issued pilot error prior to the black box being found. Niki did not accepted the verdict, but he was keen to find out the actual cause itself. When the black box was found and the data of the flight being retrieved. Lauda insisted that Boeing stimulate the exact flight with the same passenger load and weather conditions. It found out that it was in fact a mechanical issue, from Boeing itself, which was the sole reason for the tragedy.
Niki insisted that he was doing it was not to avert the company's responsibility to compensate the victims' families. But he wanted to know 'exactly' what happened, just like any mechanical or driver's errors operating a Formula 1 car. He never pointed the blame but knowing the full extent of the problem, correcting it and making sure that it never happens again, was the only way to bring closure to the victims' survivors, but also for the aviation industry to learn from this tragic lesson.
There was just a little bit more to that story in that Lauda had to challenge Boeing to get them to reveal the truth about what happened and to admit that control was unrecoverable after deployment of the thrust reverser.F1tommy wrote:I think the cause was a thrust reverser engaged on takeoff.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2006/ ... ortmonthly