The pilots’ “high-risk flying,” which took their airplane too low and too slow over the Swiss Alps, led to an Aug. 4, 2018, crash that killed both pilots and 18 others aboard a historic Junkers Ju 52 known as “Iron Annie,” the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (STSB) says.
In the final report on the crash, the STSB said the piloting was a direct cause of the accident, with the pilots – along with a number of others who worked for operator Ju-Air – accustomed to “not complying with rules for safe flight operations and taking high risks, even with passengers on board.”
The report specified that the flight crew had “piloted the aircraft in a very high-risk manner by navigating it into a narrow alley at a low altitude and with no possibility of an alternative flight path” and that they…
