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Old 23rd May 2011, 15:51
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Khashoggi
 
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If I understand these latest leaks/rumors is that Capt Dubois travels up to the cockpit after presumably noticing the engines spooling down/noise and/or the AoA/deck angle increasing.

He then presumably instructs his colleagues to go max thrust to prevent an impending stall due to iced pitots misleading the Airbus AT to reduce thrust for overspeed protection.

The max thrust causes a pitching moment, it also makes the Airbus Flight protections kick in for overspeed protection resulting in a hard pitch up. Aggravated stall?

Presumably this is where the AP and AT would give up and say YOUR AIRPLANE.
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