VRS is a symptom not the cause. It is dangerous 3 axis autopilot modes. You could have the same accident tomorrow in an A109. If you lower the lever and ddon't pay attention to the speed with alt or vs engaged you will lose control. You need height to recover. The AFCS is dangerous if you don't know about this. If they had had the apm2010 afcs we have it would not have happened. Speed would have fallen to 40kts and stopped. The vertical would have then increased until the ground protection in the system had levelled them out. Crap afcs is your cause. Pilots complain
Last edited by GipsyMagpie; 18th Oct 2013 at 20:12.
Reason: Edited to reflect AFCS type