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Old 2nd Jun 2011, 18:20
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fgrieu
 
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In answer to Lemain:

I am just trying to understand what happened, and what lessons can be learned. I did link to an article echoing a voice asking to ground the planes, but that's not an endorsement of that opinion.

If (that's far from evident, at least to me) the THS remained nose up 13° despite the pilot commanding a nose down circa 13000 ft due to a characteristic of the flight law then active, then I think pilots on the type should be trained to trim manually in order to get out of stall in that flight law, rather sooner than later. Anyway, if that's true, I expect many if not most pilots on the type have read the BEA report and came to that conclusion by themselves.

Full disclosure: I'm not a pilot, I am an engineer working on security (not safety) critical systems.
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