American Airlines Flight 742 "flight control system" problems

[sevenstrokeroll]

white knight you are right

boys and girls...situational awareness...flying along, airspeed normal, altitude constant, power setting normal, pitch normal for speed at cruise.

I was once in a plane with a moron captain...he didn't have his pitot heat on (i did) and we entered cloud....his airspeed fell off to zero, he started panicing like a little girl.

I said calm down, we are trimmed for level cruise flight with cruise power and no indication of turbulence, I then reached over and turned on his pitot heat.

a few seconds later, everything was fine

and if and i mean IF we had NO accurate airspeed indications I sure wouldn't PULL BACK ON THE STICK

and maybe the LHS pilot should have pressed the I've got it button and pushed forward.

a long time ago in a galaxy far far away we assumed one thing would be wrong and looked for other ways to KNOW what was going on.

[misd-agin]

^^^. What type of a/c?

[Clandestino]

Originally Posted by BOAC

Maybe then we can return to "American Airlines Flight 742 "flight control system" problems"

We can't. There were none.

[nitpicker330]

Airbus 330 Memory item checklist for Stall Warning says:--

"-Nose down pitch control --- Apply

This will reduce the Aoa"

Couldn't be clearer.

Next.

[BOAC]

Originally Posted by Clandestino

We can't. There were none.

- aha! The penny finally drops!

[Lonewolf_50]

BOAC, it only took 18 pages. Happy days.