Originally posted by kcockayne
Investigators are "mindful" of the repercussions which could occur to their national flagship manufacturers & airlines if they publish anything which pins the blame too firmly on the manufacturers or the airlines.
It is my suspicion that may be what happened here.
You've got it right. — a quote by a senior NTSB investigator (after hours in Hong Kong) circa 2001: " ...sometimes we have to burn a pilot to protect the local industry..." I heard it, but unfortunately didn't have a recording device...
Originally posted by Rockhound
For the last 10000 m of freefall, the last two minutes, only test pilots might have pulled off the sort of dramatic, aggressive effort needed to save the plane. That might have involved throttling back one engine to force a wing drop, to drag the nose out of its 40-degree up angle into a dive.
Quite true —
IF he
recognized and
corrected the egregious THS setting. Should note that some bottom rudder with 90° of bank would also be helpful to get the nose pointed in the direction of energy (and therefore recovery).