Der Spiegel
Hi there,
The German newspaper Der Spiegel releases 2 news derived from the data recorders:
- the CVR would show that M. Dubois, the captain (the most experimented), was not in the cockpit when the serie of problems began, and rushed to the cockpit to try to shout his orders to the flying crew
- the AF 447 stalled at high altitude due to a sudden pitch up, but whether it is a crew manoeuver or a response of the autopilot (just before it disengaged, fueled with erroneous airspeeds) is not avalaible.
This pitch up seems similar to the Bigernair case. I don't get why the AP would react to an underestimated airspeed by increasing the pitch angle ? Wouldn't it be an AP reaction to an overestimated airspeed ?
Jeff