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Old 25th Feb 2018, 04:49
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The incident of Tarom at Orly is a textbook example of recovery from a hairy stall situation.
The official incident report shows no evidence of "a textbook example of recovery from a hairy situation." See: https://reports.aviation-safety.net/...310_YR-LCA.pdf


On the contrary, it seems clear from the subsequent investigation that, not only was the captain utterly confused about the gyrations of the aircraft caused by his own incompetence and subsequent over-controlling, but it was only sheer good fortune the aircraft did not crash. It did not help that the co-pilot was also on the controls some of the time without telling the captain. Neither had a clue what was going on following the initial strong pitch up. That was obvious from the CVR

The aircraft virtually fell into an uncontrolled steep dive of its own volition after stalling at an extreme nose high attitude. As it picked up airspeed by virtue of the steepness of its dive, the captain was able to recover by simply pulling back on the stick. There was no evidence in the report that the captain attempted to deliberately roll the aircraft to the nearest horizon in order to get the nose to drop and thus pick up airspeed for recovery.

Good luck - not skill - saved that aircraft from crashing. .
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