Originally Posted by
RatherBeFlying
Hi RG,
In AF447 all the pitots got clogged at some point which looks like a multiple sensor failure to me.
Caveat: haven't read the report recently.
And one other point;
had the pilots done absolutely nothing then the plane would have continued flying level and straight. It was the action from the pilots that actually brought it down. And even after the aircraft got deeply stalled, if the pilots had let go of the side stick the aircraft would have unstalled itself and regained controlled level flight.
So the AF447 has very significant differences compared to the B737 single sensor cases we are discussing. In all those cases the aircraft wanted to crash itself and the pilots needed to actively intervene in order to avoid the crashes, something they sadly did not succeed in.