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Originally Posted by
dlen
Could they just have switched autopilot on?
Switching AP ON in chaotic situations of unreliable airspeeds and concurrent stick shakers is deadly since it’s inputs become unreliable. Better to fly the plane using the reliable information that is available PITCH. POWER. GROUNDSPEED. it works. Some time back (1980s) 737 suffered bird strike which took out AOA. And all air data including airspeed and altitude. Safe landing using above parameters. This became a standard training exercise. Fly a circuit with no speed info at all- except of course GPS which is a great help.