In the aftermath of the in-flight upset of a Qantas Boeing 747 en route from Melbourne, Australia, to Beijing, the airline has incorporated additional complex stall warning recovery events into recurrent training for its 747 pilots, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says.
The ATSB said Wednesday that, after the April 7, 2017, incident, Qantas retrained all 747 flight crews in stall warning recovery scenarios, changed ground school lesson plans to “ensure flight crews were adequately prepared to recover from stall warning activations at high altitudes or with engine power above idle,” and modified flight crew training manuals.
The measures also were applied to Qantas 737s and 787s, the ATSB said.
The 2017 incident occurred about 110 km (59 nm) southeast of Hong Kong during descent, after air traffic control told the flight cre…
