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Old 14th May 2003, 17:45
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Not seen the programme, but I think a lot of the debate at the time of the incident centered around the differences in technique between light aircraft and heavy transport aircraft for the use of rudder or aileron in recovering from stalls/maintaining directional control. Light aircraft pilots are taught to use rudder not aileron to maintain directional control in a stall, and there was some doubt as to how deeply ingrained this habit had become in the F/O of the airliner due to the large amount of rudder input prior to the crash. In a heavy transport aircraft such as the Airbus involved, using rudder would have been incorrect, but as events turned out any recovery technique would likely have proved futile.
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