Air Asia Indonesia Lost Contact from Surabaya to Singapore
Coagie is onto something. Some pilots have become so used to the fact of operating in the coffin corner (mach overspeed vs. stall) that they have become oblivious to the fact that it is called coffin corner (who came up with that term)?
Shouldn't the first reaction when having to hand fly at that altitude be, I need to get lower as my margin for error here is extremely small, hence I need to give myself some room to be able to safely handfly i.e. I will descend now.
It appears some pilots instinctively do the exact opposite! They start to climb. Why is that?