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Old 30th Jul 2017, 15:08
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EMIT
 
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Trouble

No, not the aircraft brought Bonin into trouble, Bonin brought the aircraft into trouble.

Everyone who pulls and holds full back stick in an airliner will bring that airliner down - works in any type, from any manufacturer.

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A B-727 with blocked pitot tubes in the nineteen-seventies.
A B-757 of Birgenair with blocked pitot tubes, where the autopilot maintained nose up and the autothrottle powered back (to keep the false speed indication below the limit)
MD-82 over Venezuela in 2005 and MD-83 over Mali in 2014.

Works whether the aircraft is equipped with Fly By Wire, or with "old fashioned cables", with interconnected yokes, or non-connected sidesticks, gues what, would even work in a single seater with only one set of flight controls, works with or without auto trim function; by the way, even a non-Airbus aircraft autotrims as long as the autopilot is in control, and, as in Mali, that could be up until the stall and wingdip.
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