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Old 16th Dec 2014, 13:50
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Originally Posted by Qantas_A380
Why would they suddenly start taking heed of it?
Because that continuous stall warning period ceased, but unfortunately came back when the left seater applied the most wanted procedure ... which made him quit his stick pushing and confirmed his doubt on the overall FCS integrity.

And any pilot knows that pulling your nose up will only exacerbate a stall.
But the stall warning came back precisely when finally the left seater was pushing the nose down ...

I doubt anyone envisaged a pilot pulling up so far into a stall that the airspeeds would make the SW system unreliable.
The stall warning system behaved as by design but not as by regulation ...

The only way in which I can fault the design of the aircraft in this accident is that it didn't force the nose down in response to the repeated attempts by the co-pilot to pull up.
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