Crash jet had faulty altimeter
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The Turkish Airlines 737-800 that crashed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport last week had a malfunctioning altimeter that caused the plane’s autopilot system to cut off the engines, Bloomberg has reported investigators as saying.
“The crew didn’t respond at first,” Pieter van Vollenhoven of the Dutch Safety Board was reported saying. By the time they reacted, the aircraft had lost too much altitude for them to be able to save it, he added. Nine people, including the pilots, died in the incident.
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