Air Asia Indonesia Lost Contact from Surabaya to Singapore

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@IanW;

#3109, http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...ml#post8857067, "Had the THS motored to neutral in the AFR447 case the aircraft would probably have pitched nose down and might have been recovered. "

Point-of-information: - the THS would have motored from -13.5° to about -2° had the stick been held fully-forward for a sufficiently long period and very likely the aircraft could have been recovered. Also, manually rotating the trim wheel disengages the autotrim permitting a quicker setting of the THS. When released from manual movement in a few seconds it returns to auto and begins to take into account control inputs, but by that time recovery actions are theoretically taking place and the THS would follow-up with the SS orders.