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I agree; however, the Air France incident you are referring to is when the airspeed indicator was locked due to a frozen pitot tube, wasn't it? That seems like

• mdavidn 13y ago
  Read the report. The pitot tubes thawed after about one minute. Everything after was pilot error. After the high-altitutde stall, the pilot-in-control kept the angle of attack above 30 degrees.
• md224 13y ago
  You may have already read this, but if not, this is an incredibly chilling reconstruction of the events leading up to that crash: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877 http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/... Key excerpt from halfway through: "Another of the pitot tubes begins to function once more. The cockpit's avionics are now all functioning normally. The flight crew has all the information that they need to fly safely, and all the systems are fully functional. The problems that occur from this point forward are entirely due to human error." Really tragic.
  • hatbert 13y ago
    Right, but how does the cockpit crew know that they airspeed indicators are working correctly now? They don't.
• wdr1 13y ago
  Popular Mechanics did a mesmerizing writeup of the Air France transcript. Worth a read: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877 http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/...
• maxcan 13y ago
  All pilots are trained to recognize issues like a frozen pitot tube and there is a very simple solution - activate pitot heat and maintain level flight using your attitude indicator until your airspeed indicator starts working again.