I'm wondering, Poison's message aside, has anybody fed the sequence of
ACARS into a simulator to see what the result is? Either in reverse order of received, or in order listed on the ACARS message. Does one message trigger the next one in line? At what point does the aircraft simulator become uncontrollable or unrecoverable? Factor in the weather, turbulance, etc.
You should have some sort of idea as to what happened in what sequence and what type of break up they were looking at?
and
1)Without knowing what triggered the ACARS messages, how could you feed this into a simulator? (Assuming simulators have a total ACARS simulation which they do not).
....but can they, and have they, compared the initial ACARS messages, possibly the ones with the initial problem, with those of the other 4 or so known and mentioned very similar cases with the pitot tubes... Yes in the other incidents the pilots were able to regain control after a couple of minutes but I would think if the problems all arose from the same cause then the initial ACARS messages of those incidents during that time would be the same or very similar. They surely have a maintenace log of those. Have not seen anything on this yet...