A-14-009

NTSB Safety Recommendation — Aviation

Recommendation text

TO THE BOEING COMPANY: In collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration,(1) assess methods for providing weight-on-wheels cueing to MD-11 pilots to enhance pilot awareness of bounced landings and facilitate proper pilot reaction and effective control inputs when bounced landings occur, (2) provide a formal report on the findings of the assessment, and (3) if the assessment shows that the weight-on-wheels cueing methods could be useful to MD-11 pilots, provide copies of the report to all US operators of MD-11 airplanes and encourage them to provide a means for weight-on-wheels cueing on these airplanes.

In plain language (FlightFinder summary)

Boeing, in collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration, is asked to evaluate methods for providing weight-on-wheels cueing to MD-11 pilots to improve awareness and reaction during bounced landings. They must also submit a formal report on the findings and, if beneficial, share it with US MD-11 operators and encourage them to implement such cueing.

This plain-language summary is written by FlightFinder to explain the recommendation above. It is not the official wording — the verbatim NTSB text is quoted above.

Details

StatusClosed - Acceptable Action
ModeAviation
ClosedDec 5, 2016
NTSB numberDCA10RA079
AddresseesBoeing Company

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NTSB safety recommendations are advisory; addressees are not legally required to adopt them. Source: NTSB CAROL (public domain).