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Old 23rd Feb 2012, 05:34
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Very very sobering.

At the risk of sounding ignorant can I ask a very basic question of the more experienced pilots reading this? Can I assume that in a nutshell the two biggest errors here were:
  1. Pitching to allow the aircraft to decrease below Red Line (or was Red Line not applicable due to the double failure including the feathering system?)
  2. Not reducing the power on the good engine when direction could not be maintained.
Man, less than 22 seconds between initiating the simulated failure and being unrecoverable, that is damn sobering.

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