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Old 29th Dec 2013, 20:34
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Jorge_Vilarrubi
 
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This is what I understood.

Journalist:

There has been a clear intention to crash the plane.

Abreu: (from the readings of FDR )

Minutes before the crash, the co-pilot left the cokpit, only the Captain remained there.

The altitude Selection Control was moved three times from 38000ft to 592ft below ground level.

Thrust Control levers have been reduced to IDLE.

The Speed Selection control was moved to Max and stood on Max Vmo.

The Spoilers have been manually deployed until the end of the recording.

From CVR readings:

During all the previous actions, low and high level alarms have been audible, as well as repeated bumps in the door with request for entering the cockpit.

Conclusions:

All of the observed actions require a knodledge of the airplane's systems, since all the descent was performed with Autopilot ON. This denotes a clear intention.

The reasons for all these actions are unknown and the investigation continues.

Hope this helps...
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