I'll wait for the final report of the enquiry team, Piers, but it sounds like a
classic case of an inexperienced pilot forgetting his elementary flying
training: signs of the approaching stall. It's more difficult at night with a
fly-by-wire aircraft, but the principles remain important: high nose, controls
less effective, low speed, stall warner etc . . . But I don't know what
cockpit indications they had. Oh, and the weather won't have helped, of course.
And I think that the captain was away from the flight deck, or am I thinking of
another instance?
Chris
On 25 Aug 2011, at 19:58, Piers Hemy wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer, Chris. I am reminded of the developing explanation
> for the loss of the AF Airbus over the Atlantic last year, whereby it
> appears the flightdeck crew were battling to recover from what appeared to
> be a dive from 39000 feet (huge amount of wind noise, but airspeed
> indicators not working). The aircraft was actually stalled, falling flat
> into the ocean. I can't imagine that it would have been easy to convince
> anyone in those circumstances that the right thing to do is the opposite of
> their instinct.
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