IIRC, the captain was away from the flight deck at the start of the
incident but did return later.
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/25/2011 4:53 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> 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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