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Re: [OM] Titanic, was More from the Airport

Subject: Re: [OM] Titanic, was More from the Airport
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:58:21 -0500
Didn't they change out the pitot tubes on all of that model Airbus right 
after this happened?

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Titanic, was More from the Airport


> I'll wait for the final report of the enquiry team, Piers, but it sounds 
> like a classic case of an inexperienced pilot forgetting his elementary 
> flying training: signs of the approaching stall.  It's more difficult at 
> night with a fly-by-wire aircraft, but the principles remain important: 
> high nose, controls less effective, low speed, stall warner etc . . .  But 
> I don't know what cockpit indications they had.  Oh, and the weather won't 
> have helped, of course.
>
> And I think that the captain was away from the flight deck, or am I 
> thinking of another instance?
>
> Chris
>
> On 25 Aug 2011, at 19:58, Piers Hemy wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the pointer, Chris. I am reminded of the developing 
>> explanation
>> for the loss of the AF Airbus over the Atlantic last year, whereby it
>> appears the flightdeck crew were battling to recover from what appeared 
>> to
>> be a dive from 39000 feet (huge amount of wind noise, but airspeed
>> indicators not working). The aircraft was actually stalled, falling flat
>> into the ocean. I can't imagine that it would have been easy to convince
>> anyone in those circumstances that the right thing to do is the opposite 
>> of
>> their instinct.
>
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