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

Subject: Re: [OM] Titanic, was More from the Airport
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:10:31 -0400
I believe a decision had been made before the accident to change out the 
pitot tubes but this plane had not been modified.

Chuck Norcutt


On 8/25/2011 4:58 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> 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>
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> Subject: Re: [OM] Titanic, was More from the Airport
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>> 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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