Will Fraser:
With its highly trained and experienced Flight crew on a flag carrier built to exacting specifications, why do you not believe that had the crew had a Horizon, the a/c would not have ended up in the Ocean?
With a Horizon, and power, AB's suggested solution, pitch and power, would be expected to have worked. I believe it too. Call me old fashioned.
You are right, and this is the conclusion based only on the few
facts available (ACARS).
Hence
, what happened after 02.14?
We just don't know neither when and where she crashed. F-GZCP ended in the Ocean but those ACARS are not saying why she did so.
Short factual summary:
June 1st, at 0210, she was in the middle of a big CB cluster and her Thales ice-sensible pitot-probes started to freeze. Between 0210 and 0214, the various flight systems related to air data stream were automaticaly disconnected (as expected in the A330 documentation). At 0214 (+/-30s), no more ACARS were recieved from F-GZCP. On June 6th, the first bodies and wreckage were spotted and recovered by the Brazilian SAR confirming she had crashed.
End.
Everything else is speculation based on the few clues we have seen from the wreckage, rumors about the investigation work, supposed Airbus design flaws or whatever agenda some people have. All we need now to go further in this case is more facts and less "noise".
S~
Olivier
