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Old 6th Oct 2014, 09:44
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I would. Air Algerie MD80 apparently stalled at high altitude in cloud during storm penetration. The accident appears to have developed as a loss of airspeed awareness leading to a fully developed stall and roll off departure to the port side with post stall gyrations. The nose then became planted way nose down, left wing down as the stall broke, but they never recovered from the nose down-wing down attitude
And unbelievably it was flown by a TRE with 10,000 hours on type. Presumably he had flown approaches to stalls in the simulator, and taught others the correct (??) recovery technique as well.

All of which leads me to conclude that Centaurus is absolutely correct; either simulators do not accurately replicate high altitude stalls, or there are experienced pilots out there with woefully inadequate knowledge of the correct stall avoidance and recovery techniques.
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