AF447

[Dave Gittins]

Is there suggestion of an unrecoverable upset ?

I start by announcing that I am just a 200 hr Cherokee driver.

Is the suggestion that severe weather/turbulence/updraft etc caused by a CB and with the aeroplane in "coffin corner" of the flight envelope caused an upset ?

Is there then postulation that the upset was of such a magnitude that even when the aeroplane got to (say 10,000 ft) a level where the available speed range was greater and manoeverability and controllability higher it could not recover ?

Is this hypothesised to be through speed / attitude ?

I thought only the "T" tails (discovered I think by G-ARPY) got into a locked in unrecoverable condition.

These are questions so be nice to me please.

Dave