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Old 13th May 2013, 02:31
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Wally Mk2
 
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To get a modern day airliner to go below 60 kts whilst airborne is or would be a very rare event. Prior to that speed there would be continuous warnings to the fact of low or reducing airspeed so having the stall continue blw such a low speed is at that point in time purely academic.
Training of more manual manipulation of the flight controls as well as recognition of upset flight characteristics is one way to keep the pilot in the loop if it ever occurred but remembering every day around the world aircraft perform thousands of normal flights in adverse conditions without incident so having regular exposure to such training (manual flight) isn't feasible in a now very cost aware industry.
You design/build a peace of machinery & train it's operators to handle every event that's likely to happen in the day to day operation of that equipment but you can't train them to be 100% ready all the time for every problem no matter how remote.
Man has been crashing heavier than air machines since the "Wrong Bro's" (it's their bloody fault for getting off their bikes in the first place!) but we simply do our best & that's all anyone can ask of a human.

Every accident in aviation paves the way for safer flying in the future, that's why we are where we are today.

Wmk2

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