The PNF insisted 3 times for the PF to descend. Finally PF responds with confusion and finally appears to recognize he has climbed.
Watch your speed (PNF)
Watch your speed
Okay, okay okay I’m going back down (PF)
Stabilise
Yeah
Go back down
(no response recorded)
According to the three you’re going up so go back down
Okay
You’re at go back down
It’s going we’re going (back) down
I’ll put you in in A T T (*)…
We are in yeah we are in climb
IMHO the PF appears to not be aware of his own actions, was he in physiological shock/mentally impared?
I have to say that the informality of the response to the requests is startling. Perhaps something is lost in translation or culture? It's almost like the PF is getting irritated by the request to descend. It is incongruous with the gravity of the situation. It reminds me exactly of the response of a teenager when they are asked to clean their room!
No doubts, he is at the wrong flight level, stall warnings blaring so I would be looking for an immediate roger, descending back to FL350. Due to the gravity of the situation and after 3 failures to descend would it be reasonable to think PF is mentally impared/SS fail and take control?
Last edited by xcitation; 4th Aug 2011 at 04:16.