Chris
Why are you thinking teardrop?? If the decision had been made to turn around, why not a maximum rate turn to port off the airway at some point past LKP ?? If a sudden entry into a turn, could this have caused potential recovery to be further remote??
If sudden onset of very serious problems, a teardrop or wide turn would perhaps not have conformed to the urgency of the decision ??
BTW, what do you think of turbulence as causing the a/p drop, and turbulence of sufficient force to blank, or disturb the pitots ability to read ? I am not convinced ICE is the only way to screw up the pitots feed stream.
Also, re: the WindShear ACARS, the system would have alerted rapid deviations in a/s, consistent with changing headings of airstream. These would have been deviating, showing rapid increase/decrease in a/s, and if not nose on, tail on, could this warning have been an indication of turbulence that may have caused discrepant readings in #1 and #2,3, and even #2-#3??
Last edited by bearfoil; 8th May 2011 at 17:03.