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Old 28th May 2011, 20:17
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The maddening part of Birgenair is the Capt merely had to reach forward to his outboard instrument panel and rotate his Air DATA switch from NORM to ALT.

AeroPeru 603 was a through flight from KMIA to Chile. The arriving 727 was grounded for maintenance upon arrival Lima, so they hurriedly pressed the 757 into service. I don't know if it was a dedicated 757 crew, or a crew who normally flew both and was expecting to continue with the 727.

This accident is pretty well covered on wiki. I don't know how many line pilots would have been successful in the same circumstances, but the problem was surely more challenging than AF447.
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