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On September 6, an ANA 737-700 with 117 aboard rolled through 130-degrees of bank and lost more than 6,000 feet of altitude partly due to poorly placed switches, according to Japan’s Transport Safety Board’s (JTSB) preliminary report. No serious injuries were reported. Flight NH140 was cruising at 41,000 feet out of Okinawa for Tokyo when the captain left the cockpit. Upon his return, the co-pilot reached for what he thought was the control that unlocks the cockpit door and moved it to the left. The preliminary report states that the pilot instead grabbed and moved to the left the rudder trim control, which on the incident aircraft shares a similar position at the rear of the control pedestal. The four-year old jet then reacted to that control input as it should.

Safety Board: Switch Mistake Nearly Flips ANA 737 is a post from: Small Jet Charter

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On September 6, an ANA 737-700 with 117 aboard rolled through 130-degrees of bank and lost more than 6,000 feet of altitude partly due to poorly placed switches, according to Japan’s Transport Safety Board’s (JTSB) preliminary report. No serious injuries were reported. Flight NH140 was cruising at 41,000 feet out of Okinawa for Tokyo when the captain left the cockpit. Upon his return, the co-pilot reached for what he thought was the control that unlocks the cockpit door and moved it to the left. The preliminary report states that the pilot instead grabbed and moved to the left the rudder trim control, which on the incident aircraft shares a similar position at the rear of the control pedestal. The four-year old jet then reacted to that control input as it should.

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