Originally posted by Chris Scott ...
PS: mm43, why would the aeroplane be stalled early-on, when the ASIs were UNDER-reading?
Machinbird has countered the question. In fact, I am just playing "devil's advocate" to draw out how the a/c could impact the way the BEA have reported, and within say 20NM of LKP.
In an area of 20NM radius from LKP, 40 percent of the northern semicircle has already by covered by sidescan sonar.
Regarding the ACARS messages, the
timing is rounded to the nearest minute in which they were generated and is incorporated in each message prior to its identification groups. Check through them carefully and you will see that they are not necessarily in order, and those received in the first 95 seconds could have been initiated or causal to the A/P disconnect.
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