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Air France and Airbus on trial 13 years after Atlantic jet disaster
PARIS, FRANCE — More than 13 years after an Air France jet plunged into the Atlantic, killing all 228 people on board, the French carrier and planemaker Airbus go on trial in a Paris court next week with relatives seeking light at the end of a long tunnel. (www.airlinerwatch.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
And don't Airbus side-stick allow "independent" control-inputs (Pilot vs Co-Pilot)? Wasn't that a factor, as well?
I think they did not diagnose a Stall. With Unreliable Airspeed, engines at full chat, they were mystified... they had Pitch at 10 degrees NU, but NO AoA. Their AoA was upwards of 40 degrees (sic), they had no chance of sussng attitude....
20,000 in a Boing. If you are out of ideas there is one left. 5° pitch and max power will save yo every time. I’ll bet it will work in a Flying Renault also. Yes you eventually need to reference a chart for pitch/ power for your weight.
Why would any pilot pull so much? Overspeed. Then nose down uncontrollability.There is a reason the recorders are always treated like the murder weapon. Such secrecy, and always read by the involved parties. A very good reason.
Can someone tell me why, in a world of so much technologies and smart engineers, a multimillion dollars machine with humain beings on board still relies on early aviation pitot tubes and whether the pilots have turned the heat switch on or not? Is this not the 1st question to answer?
Pitot tubes are the primary source of airspeed information just as the static source is the primary source of altitude information. The “heat switch” was on, but even on, in certain circumstances they can and did ice up. That is an engineering and design issue, the reason all the original pitot tubes of that design were scheduled for replacement of a more robust unit.
In an honest trial, the true story will be found out. They had a mechanical, but it was far more serious than plugged pitots.