Originally Posted by OC
Let us lay out the reality of AF447 - the pitots iced up causing UAS. That is all. There is literally no evidence that any of the other instruments went Lady Gaga. The flight crew didn't respond to the incident in an appropriate manner putting the aircraft into a stall. That is all. No smoking gun, no conspiracy, no manipulative manufacturer. Just mundane errors - a whimper not a bang.
Well, the stall warning system did not behave as most of us would have expected it to, but other than that, I agree.
Now if you were in BEA's position, what kind of recommendations would
you be developing to prevent the
next accident?