Another speculation
Hello everyone – first time here - always wanted to be a pilot, but became an electronic engineer, then a teacher.
This is a fascinating thread, and I've learned a huge amount, especially about stalls in the last few pages. I have a question for the experts:
I recently saw a program on TV that explained the phenomenon of super cooled water vapour which can exist in very pure air, in the absence of particles to condense around. The program narrator shower how ice spontaneously form around an object (he used a real pitot tube) when introduced to supercooled water vapour in the lab
If this did happen, it would be more than a pitot tube or three that iced up, especially the wings and the leading components of the entire craft. (Some manner of) stalling would have occurred, but the subsequent loss of altitude would have cause the ice build-up to melt, and the possibility would exist for the aircraft to become manageable again, would it not?
What are the chances that the plane crashed in a belated but vain attempt by the pilots to pull out of a dive? Is it true that ACARS transmits error conditions, but not the reversal of a error condition back to OK?