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Old 15th Oct 2011, 16:58
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Lyman
 
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AF don't fly AoA, Pitch was not inconsistent with GA, and there was no sense of a/c orientation other than that. It seems to me, they were unaware of the AoA disaster. Captain returned walking up the aisle to the Cockpit door, and he makes no comment re: deck angle, so why do we assume it was an issue, to them, the only ones who mattered. And, if not, ample evidence exists to show how they lulled into "other than STALL".

Inertial attitude from FDR, as well as Inertial speeds and accelerations were not available to the flight crew. The VS confusions are an example. It is a difficulty to resist a simplistic opinion, I will admit. Vertical speed, airstream noise, and an unsussable deck angle (due comfy g) make an either/or seductive. Rapid nose down descent, or mushy NU descent?

CHOOSE WISELY?

For that matter, the record of annunciations in the FDR do not prove they were displayed in the cockpit.

At some point, the realization must be that there may have been failures of electrical nature and mechanical, and that the crew were not privy to the nature of the failings. To assume that all evidence is fair, and balanced, as presented, obviously allows for some conclusions that cannot be supported. As yet, anyway.
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