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russ_watters
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Chilling.
So I was wrong: the pilot error was much worse. Greg's article basically says that aside from sporadic and not overly serious airspeed indication faults, there was nothing wrong with the plane: nothing affecting it's flyability. The crash was caused by the one co-pilot applying full back pressure to the stick for nearly the entire event and neither the other copilot nor the captain recognizing it (except for a brief moment during the first stall) until it was too late.russ_watters said:So it sounds like the cause was faulty speed indication leading to a stall, then pilot error in recovering: http://content.usatoday.com/communi...rance-flight-experienced-35-minute-freefall/1
With the report into the tragedy of Air France 447 due next month, Airbus’s 'brilliant’ aircraft design may have contributed to one of the world’s worst aviation disasters and the deaths of all 228 onboard.