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Old 1st Mar 2009, 17:42
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snowfalcon2
 
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An observation from the transponder data:

The aircraft descended out of cloud almost at the same instant that the groundspeed reached 120 kts, i.e. the indicated airspeed was then around 130 kts which I guess was fairly close to Vref. And it was practically on the glide slope.

Scenario: A quick glance at the instruments indicated everything was OK, so attention shifted to the runway ahead. But, as the data suggests, in fact the airspeed was decaying at a rate that only ~10 seconds later took the aircraft below 110 kts indicated, which is, I guess, about the stick shaker activation speed.

Is it plausible that the cloudbreak caused a diversion of attention at the critical time? Just asking.
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