Flight QZ8501, Human's Error?

Flight QZ8501: What we know about the AirAsia plane crash

 

AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crashed into the Java Sea off Borneo shortly after take-off on 28 December 2014 with no survivors.

The Airbus A320-200, carrying 162 people from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore, was just over 40 minutes into its flight when contact was lost. The jet took off from Surabaya at 05:35 local time on Sunday 28 December (22:35 GMT Saturday). It was nearly halfway into its two-hour flight to Singapore when it disappeared. The pilot contacted air traffic control at 06:12 local time to request permission to climb to 38,000ft (11,000m) from 32,000ft to avoid big storm clouds - the last time contact was made with the plane.

The plane disappeared from radar screens shortly afterwards. It did not issue a distress signal.

A report by the Indonesian weather agency initially said bad weather was the "biggest factor" in the crash.
But an official report by transportation officials released in December 2015 found that a fault in the plane's rudder control system, along with crew action, contributed to the crash. A crack in a tiny electronic module caused the system to send repeated warning alerts to the pilots, who responded by resetting the system. This caused the autopilot to disengage and the plane rolled to the left. The pilots struggled to right the plane, which stalled and crashed. There were 155 passengers, including 17 children and one infant. The seven crew were made up of two pilots, four flight attendants and an engineer. A total of 106 bodies were eventually found, with the rest still unaccounted for. Nearly all the passengers and crew were Indonesians, including six of the crew. One of the pilots was French. Also on the flight were a South Korean family of three, one Briton, one Singaporean and a Malaysian.

 

 Personal Reflection

"Human's error create disaster", this statement should always be remembered because it was true. So, we cannot blame the weather or the big storm clouds because they didn't do anything, we have to have personal reflection why it was always possibilities that human's error could actually create danger. The crew should have checked double times about the conditions of the plane, because it was crucial and we risking so many people's life and that's why double checking is important.