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Old 28th May 2011, 10:00
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Originally Posted by JPI33600
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Sure. So we are back to my very first question: before discussing how they could have detected/fixed the stall condition, I'd like to understand why they didn't apply the unreliable airspeed procedure (fly pitch/thrust) in the very first place, which would probably have prevented the stall condition from developing.

As I read it from the few comments of 'bus drivers here, this seems to be the initial human cause of the issue (just after the technical cause associated with pitots malfunction).
That does seem to me to be the single biggest question - these chaps were experienced and current pilots unlikely to make such an elementary error. It seems likely that there is some other factor that we just can't see in the evidence at the moment.

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