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Old 25th February 2009 | 14:51
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NigelOnDraft
 
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Those are actually examining the report, I've taken a closer look... as others did above.

1. The approach to the stall appears to be in Normal Law.
2. Stall Warning in fairly steady state flight. This should have been a "heads up" things were going wrong... you should not get a Stall Warning in Normal Law [15:45:05]
3. Reaction appears to be TOGA ~2s later [15:45:06/7] followed by Fwd Stick [15:45:09]
4. FACs fail a couple of seconds later (or were switched off)... [~15:45:10]
5. A couple more seconds later aircraft goes to Direct Law (as one would expect with 2 FACs failed and Gear Down) [15:45:15]
6. Up to 15:45:21 the Pitch seems OK (decreasing slightly all the time since the stall warning), but from then on aggressively rises to ~60nu. Ful Power was achieved ~ 15:45:12]
7. Some interesting Wing Rocks in the above timings.

But what happened from 15:45:21? At this point speed had increased, wings were approx level, pitch was reasonable, full power had been on for some time, full fwd stick (but full aft stabiliser), ailerons were neutral...

I will await the BEA conclusions / proper interpretation of the above with interest... Of course, despite the "aerobatics" it had recovered from the stall etc. before impact, but height was insufficent to recover from the dive

NoD
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