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Old 15th Dec 2011, 18:46
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Excuse me for bursting in, speaking English ( I am joking ! ) but, if the CVR transcript presented in the link from GlueBall is correct (is it ? & if so how did the author of the associated book get his hands on it ? ) my heart bleeds.

Reading it and trying to imagine it in real-time , in a noisy cockpit , being buffeted by convective activity & no doubt stall induced aerodynamic buffeting, whilst these 3 guys sat there descending @ 10,000fpm without any real clue of what is going on is depressing/heartbreaking/shocking in equal measure.

One wonders what, if anything, they realised in the cabin, or possibly (I hope) they just thought it was "a bit rough" until the impact.

I find this one of the most distressing things I have ever read in an accident report, can't (or at least don't want to ) imagine what they were feeling as they realised around 10,000ft or so just how deep was the merde they were engulfed by.

Nightmare stuff
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