PF Action in Last 30 secs - Did He Increase Thrust?
Quote:
At 2 h 12 min 02, the PF said "I don’t have any more indications", and the PNF said "we have no valid indications". At that moment, the thrust levers were in the IDLE detent and the engines’ N1’s were at 55%. Around fifteen seconds later, the PF made pitch-down inputs.
I have deduced from all the learned comments here that nose down inputs were probably made during the last 30 seconds of flight. Do we know whether increased thrust was initiated by the pilot who took over in those last 30 seconds and if not would it have made any difference ? Was the AoA still too high for the aircraft to gain enough air speed for adequate lift ?