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Old 30th Aug 2013, 21:18
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I don't think so. For the crew to have consciously tried to duck under they would have probably been pretty aware and focused on basic parameters like height and airspeed, which they would have maintained at a sensible speed. From the Met it is reasonable to presume the cloud base was not less than 200ft. High enough for a mega focused crew to pull up before hitting the sea. Still seems more like, as ? HC has posted, to be letting the AS reduce critically under low power setting on reaching MDA and losing lift. And being, bizarrely, slow to appreciate that.

IF the cause is from such a reason, despite all the chat about methods of presentation of basic info on flat screens, it would seem pretty inexcusable for a two crew operation to miss such basic info. Hard to believe it is as simple as that unless the crew were very negligent.
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