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Old 26th May 2011, 21:59
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Originally Posted by Porker1
- yes the pitots iced up, the flight computers gave up and passed the control to the pilots;
- yes the a/c stalled but (as you'd expect!) the crew then correctly applied the textbook approach to deal with the stall but this did not work;
- yes the captain had briefly left the cockpit but was back in the cockpit for the critical part of the incident.
Wasn't going to look at any more "leaks" but that sounded just too interesting - thanks for the link.

To me the most interesting thing is not what it says, but that it appears to completely contradict the earlier leaks. If the crew did everything by the book and still ended up in irrecoverable stall, then (IMHO) it can't possibly be true that the aircraft is exonerated and the crew at fault.

At least one set of leaks is therefore wrong - and always possibly both. Roll on tomorrow.
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