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Old 24th May 2011, 07:58
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Gary Brown
 
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The Air Caraibes incidents also occurred at 35,000ft and had a better result

AF447 - the Air Caraibes story and more on pitot tubes - Unusual Attitude

Did the AF crew have a chance to run through an unreliable speed indication checklist?
The answer is yes. But they soon found that the checklists had contradictory advice, and that some stall warnings they were receiving were "inappropriate" - the PF chose to ignore them and rely on manually set pitch and thrust until they sorted the unreliable airspeed problems out. Here's the internal Air Caraibes incident report (in French, but with all checklist and warning stuff in English):

Air Caraibes Report PDF

It makes for very interesting reading.
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