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Old 24th Oct 2011, 12:22
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As an aside, why on earth would any designer / regulator of a transport category aircraft, never mind the pilot, expect an aircraft of that size to get below 60kts in flight, without a stall recovery being attempted a long time before is beyond me!
Won't be beyond anybody any more...

A lot of your argument, iceman, relies of pilots being competent "stick and rudder" pilots. Can't you see that that is rapidly becoming not the case any more?

As for the two FOs, I wonder if the chap in the left hand seat ever did much hand flying from that seat. With the captain, the FOs would always "fly" from the RHS. The two FOs would probably only ever be together with the AP engaged. Here we have the aeroplane out of control, with one crewmember not sitting in his normal "poling" seat and the other not being able to work out what was going on, or at least recover. A setup for a stuffup, me thinks.
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