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IMO that’s the wrong take about that crash. The stall warning stopped once the attitude was above a certain amount, which was an insane decision on airbus’s par
by kortilla 9mo ago
IMO that’s the wrong take about that crash. The stall warning stopped once the attitude was above a certain amount, which was an insane decision on airbus’s part.
You can see in the CVR that the stall indicator stopped many times despite them being in a stall the entire time. The pilot (like every other pilot) knew how to recover from a stall on paper. But he had the plane telling him his airspeed was good (frozen tube) and that bringing the pitch down was causing a stall.
- ApolloFortyNine 9mo agoThe stall voice alarm sounded 75 times, during this time the stick Shaker also was triggering (if both pilots had let go, or just the one who was ignoring the stall warning, the plane rights itself). It's in the last column in the transcript I linked. Imo the whole average input issue would have been it's own Boeing MCAS level issue if it happened a decade later, that's more of the root here imo, since one pilot making a mistake is hardly unheard of.
- kortilla 9mo agoIt doesn’t matter how many times it sounded. It matters that it stopped while still in a stall and began again during the process of recovering the stall. When you’re panicking and the airplane is telling you what you’re doing is starting to cause a stall again, you tend to listen.