Originally Posted by Organfreak
The Russian pilot who let his son 'steer' that A300 was 'qualified' too, and yet everybody died.
Dozy:
There's a little-known coda to that accident, and that is the story of how the pilots successfully recovered the aircraft from the initial stall, but overcorrected by pulling up too long and caused a second stall that sealed their fate. What the investigators discovered in the sim was that if the pilots had simply let go of the control columns, the A310's protections would have stabilised and righted the aircraft on their own. Sadly, the Russian pilots were not trained on this feature of the A310's design.
Oh, it was an A310? My mistake.
But I wouldn't call that detail "little-known." Hell, I saw it on Air Emergency on the idiot box just the other night! But, in their defense, they never knew what was wrong in the first place. I doubt they would have trusted (my speculation) the protections at that point. Did the A310 really have that feature?