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Old 8th Jul 2013, 03:09
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Originally Posted by DozyWannabe
That's not what happened. The "speed ref" switch was (incorrectly) left in a position appropriate for icing conditions when there were none - thus the Stall Warning was triggered well before the aircraft was actually approaching stall. The crew response to the warning was inappropriate and resulted in a crash, but the real devil in the detail there was that both pilots were considerably more fatigued in real terms than they would have appeared on paper, and on top of that the F/O was evidently sick.
Thanks, I do know what happened but was trying to sum up for the sake of brevity.

The real devil in the detail was that the captain couldn't fly an aeroplane, never could fly an aeroplane, but had managed to scrape through numerous checks by the skin of his teeth.

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