How One Switch Almost Crashed This Plane | Flybe 130

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This is the story of flybe flight ___ on the 11th of january 2018 a fybe dash 8 was to fly from belfast city airport to glasgow airport. Flying was not something that the captain of flight - was planning on doing that day you see he was on standby and at the last moment he got the call that he would have to fly. So he immediately made his way from Aberdeen to Glasgow city airport to start off flying for the day this is when he met his first officer for the day.. This would be their first time flying together and both of them did not fly in or out of belfast quite often. But the weather was quite good for the time being and so neither pilot expected anything too challenging today. In the cockpit the two pilots prepped for the takeoff, they decided that the captain would be the one that would be flying the first two legs today and then the first officer would take over. The first flight of the day from Glasgow to Belfast was uneventful. The dash 8 made a smooth touchdown on runway 22 at Belfast and the pilots got to work turning the plane around for the flight back to glasgow. As the plane evacuated the runway the first officer was busy with his after landing checklists. The plane taxied and got to the stand a whole 5 minutes ahead of schedule. Not too shabby for the first flight of the day. Now that they had gotten the plane on the ground they now had to get the plane ready for the flight back. The captain walked around the plane conducting a visual check while the first officer programmed the flight management systems. Since the weight of the plane would change on the ground at Belfast a new load sheet had to be printed out. All of this went by without a hitch and within no time they were ready for the flight back.the controllers gave flight - its clearance, they would have to climb and maintain 3000 feet after taking off and so they programmed all of that into the autopilot. With the new load sheet information programmed in the pilots started the pushback and flight - was on its way to the runway. As the engines roared to life the flaps were set to 5 and the plane made its way to the holding line of runway 22. It was then cleared onto the runway so that it could backtrack and then lineup and take off. As they approached the threshold of runway 22 the captain went over their clearance again. He said “3000 with alt sel” then they started to turn the plane around on the runway to line up. Just as they lined up the taxi checklist was completed. In the cockpit the pilots were busty communicating with the controllers, doing the after start checks and prepping the cabin for departure. Complicating all of this was the fact that another airplane might be on arrival so they needed to takeoff soon or someone else would have to go around they would be mad. Then they moved onto the lineup checklist. Then they got the final takeoff clearance. The pilots started the takeoff roll and the dash 8 picked up speed and then it took off into the Belfast sky. Right after takeoff the Lnav mode was selected on the autopilot meaning that the autopilot would fly the plane along a pre planned path. The plane climbed away and soon it was at a1000 feet of altitude and the rate of climb was very much healthy. As the plane climbed it got engulfed by clouds and the crew were now in IMC. Now that the plane was safely climbing away the pilots turned on the autopilot. After a while something weird started to happen the plane was no longer climbing. The nose started to drop at about 1.2 degrees per second. BUt the crew were too busy with the after takeoff checklist. Over a couple of seconds the pitch of the plane went from 10 degrees nose up to 8 degrees nose down. With that they were descending. The plane was picking up speed and no on on the flight deck seemed to notice, the plane reached 4300 feet per minute of descent and then it broke though that critical altitude where the alarms would start shouting at the pilots. The automated warning just said “dont sink “ at 1300 feet. The captain wasted no time, he or she immediately disconnected the autopilot and pulled back power on the engines and pulled