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Old 18th Jul 2011, 15:22
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Lonewolf_50
 
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bear, upon what data are you basing your idea of overspeed loss => lost radome? At the speeds flown, lost radome likely causes non-trivial drag, likely a radar fault, and hence an ACARS message well before the upset event.

I don't see there being any data presented to date that supports this hypothesis. Indeed, what little we have from CVR is that pilots had noticed something ahead and made a small course change based on that info. So, if radar was not working, that would most likely have come up in conversation.
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