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Other than the airspeed sensors freezing up, I'm not aware of any other known malfunctions. What makes you say the system was "proven to be suspect"?
by raldi 14y ago
Other than the airspeed sensors freezing up, I'm not aware of any other known malfunctions. What makes you say the system was "proven to be suspect"?
- jt2190 14y agoI'm quoting Wikipedia's summary of the Report: * The stall warning deactivates by design when the angle of attack measurements are considered invalid and this is the case when the airspeed drops below a certain limit. * In consequence, the stall warning stopped and came back on several times during the stall; in particular, it came on whenever the pilot pushed forward on the stick and then stopped when he pulled back; this may have confused the pilots. * Despite the fact that they were aware that altitude was declining rapidly, the pilots were unable to determine which instruments to trust: it may have appeared to them that all values were incoherent. Personally, I'm not sure whether to believe that the copilot simply made an amateur mistake .