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Old 4th Jul 2013, 13:31
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Originally Posted by femanvate
AF447 involved a plane that did not correctly represent it's state of having failed airspeed sensors followed by the deep stall to the pilots.
Err - yes it did. The ECAM, PFDs and warning systems all showed loss of pitot tube data, followed by UAS, and sounded the Stall Warning for over a minute once stall was in effect.

The airline never trained it's pilots to recognize and address such a scenario
Check the previous threads - a UAS procedure was part of the documentation supplied to airlines.

...the future, which will undoubtedly see unmanned airliners giving us better reliability and cheaper flights.
As a tech guy, I fervently believe it won't happen in my lifetime.
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