Originally Posted by
Admiral346
The egg or the chicken?
What caused what?
Did a hard negative G manouver cause the elevator (Hor. Trim,...) to fail, or did it fail by unknown reasons and cause the plane to dive?
Today it has been 1 year exactly since the Germanwings accident.
Is something like that thinkable? I doubt it.
The most probable scenario to me is some kind of failure on the tail, that caused the nose over, and the inability to roll it back to wings level.
Maybe ice, or the combination of ice and an A/P disconnecting. I always hand fly in heavy ice...
Nic
Yes, Tail Plane Stall due to icing also fits this scenario. There is no anti-icing or de-icing on a 737 tail.