On the bureau tabloid article:
Flight control event involving an ATR72, VH-FVR, 47 km WSW Sydney Airport, NSW on 20 February 2014
"K" in regard to your comments – Fluff and nonsense - on the latest ATsB press release being worthy of a tabloid journalist; one of the IOS (an editor of such..
) has suggested some minor amendments :
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, an equal opportunity employer, has revealed that at 1640 and about 8,500 ft, the crew noticed the airspeed going up quickly and the speed trend excessively high. Beads of sweat poured off the first officer as she clawed at the throttles to reduce engine power and use touch control steering to temporarily disconnect the shattered autopilot before straining desperately to lift the leaden nose and prevent the doomed plane and its terrified passengers plummeting to disaster.
The aircraft felt ‘heavy’, requiring the first officer’s two hands on the controls to move from the then -4° pitch angle (aircraft nose-up/down). The first officer gambled that the pitch correction would be sufficient to prevent the mortally damaged plane from smashing through the dreaded sound barrier.
The editor also suggests providing a more punchy headline starting with something like..."
Seconds from disaster..etc" or "
Plummeting to Earth uncontrollably..etc"...
Will fwd the final suggested edit prior to the next print (Final Report) deadline...
