Originally Posted by DozyWannabe
In the event, as AZR states, by disabling (rather than disengaging) autothrust - and as a consequence alpha floor
A/THR was disconnected, nothing more.
Where is that BEA quote that states otherwise ?
And what does it change as the radar altitude was already around 30 feet ...
... and what they found was that it was alpha protection that prevented the aircraft from pitching further up than it did. As Asseline asserted, it prevented a pitch up beyond a certain point, but what it was doing was preventing a stall because the airspeed was not sufficient to climb. If the aircraft had followed his pitch-up order, it is likely that the aircraft would have stalled short of the trees, likely resulting in an unstable crash and many more deaths than actually occurred
Will you ever stop repeating the same nonsense over and over ?
For a given AoA corresponds a specific airspeed and that is not the airspeed that was not sufficient for the aircraft to climb, that was the thrust.
The system prevented the aircraft to reach and maintain alpha max so correct now once for all those misconceptions of
stall and more deaths.