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AFAIK the Air France flight would have been ok if they had not even touched the controls. They had a lot of altitude. Of course easy to say from the arm chair.
by Gravityloss 8y ago
AFAIK the Air France flight would have been ok if they had not even touched the controls. They had a lot of altitude. Of course easy to say from the arm chair.
I'm not sure how easily a regular airline overspeeds or stalls if the controls are close to a middle position. They should be aerodynamically stable (if loaded correctly).
For a fighter jet it's a different situation.
- kpil 8y agoThey were initially close to a high altitude stall, the margins are not that large at that altitude, so just dropping everything isn't really an option. The report highlighted training, which I guess is always possible to point out, but looking at the event I think they could have made more conclusions regarding how the control system performed counterintuitive by emitting stall warnings at the time they actually did the right thing, and provides little feedback when it drops into alternate law making a standard full pullback into a potentially dangerous move.