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What you have in mind for the Airbus crash is what the captain claimed, but it was not true. The engines responded normally and started to spool up to maximum p
by t0mas88 3y ago
What you have in mind for the Airbus crash is what the captain claimed, but it was not true. The engines responded normally and started to spool up to maximum power, but that takes time for older jet engines coming from idle.
The crew then pulled as far back as the stick would go, and the computer put the aircraft at it's maximum possible pitch-up. Unfortunately that wasn't enough to clear the trees they were flying into. More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296Q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296Q
A 737 in the same situation would have similar engine challenges. But the crew would have stalled it instead of the Airbus computer avoiding the stall. That would have most likely been a more severe crash than what happened here.