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Old 10th February 2011 | 20:42
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clearedtocross
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keep thy airspeed up

While the Dekker report certainly points out a lot of relevant human factors, it ignores a most important fact in the last episode of the drama.

The stickshaker goes off and one of the crew members shouts "speed". The throttles are advanced, but the spool-up is not really monitored. Now, whatever may have happened beforehand, false ra sensor, glide capture from above, automation surprise and possibly a rushed approach, an impending and recognized stall was not really triggering the survival mode of any the three pilots in the cockpit.

A stall warning and consequently the need to get back airspeed places itself on top of all flying priorities regardless of the kind airplane you fly, from ultralight to heavy.

Get the power on, make sure the engines produce what they were built for and have an eye on the angle of attac/trim before even considering any other possible issues is just pure flying basics. Mr Dekker gives us reasons why the speed could decay without recognition, but not why an experienced (on stall-prone military jets) and well trained crew failed to recover properly from the impending stall. Could it have something to do with the intention of smooth flying with a load of passengers and possibly hiding the fact to the other crew members that something went terribly wrong?
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