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Old 6th Jun 2011, 19:19
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Thanks for the replies! Appreciate it.

I was having a discussion with someone about Aeroperú Flight 603 - they crashed into the sea after taking off with the static ports still taped following maintenance work.

They had no idea about their altitude or airspeed, but I had two questions regarding that:

* Why they didn't trust or use the rad alt? GPWS was operational.

* Why they didn't decompress and use the cabin altitude indicator as an altimeter (from your responses it seem this would have worked).

I figured they could have used the IRS GS readout for approximate speed reference, allowing for the fact it accounts for wind.
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