Plastic planes flown by computers (w/ French software) are too advanced for me.
They found the black box???
Air France crash ping!
BS
As the fellow who posted the “WHY” thread axed, why don’t they make entire airplanes out of the indestructible material that the black boxes are made of?
“the report did not assign blame”
That would just be counterproductive... Everyone knows that assigning blame can do terrible things to your psyche. Gotta make these pilots feel good about themselves. Afterall, they only killed several hundred.
“it appears that the co-pilots of the AF447 failed to recognize the stall and flew the vehicle into the ocean.
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Well, in a stall, they did not fly the plane into the ocean.
It fell into the ocean.
What I do not understand is why they ignored the stall, instead of pushing the stick forward to regain airspeed.
Stall warning sounds, ADI shows 14* nose up, crew trims stab more nose up and places engines at idle ... brainless
my hubby is a pilot-he has a theory about this. He referenced a “pito” sensor. Possibly malfunctioned. If it malfunctioned it would give the pilots a false airspeed indication without necessarily giving a fault indication. Its the same as if you are driving down the interstate and your speedometer malfunctions. Except in a plane you can’t tell how fast you are going. He thinks that the plane was going slower than what they thought and consequently stalled because the computer on the plane “thought” it was going faster than it was. And it continued to go slower and slower until the stall warning was activated and then the autopilot is deactivated. Consequently, now the pilots find themselves in a stall with airspeed indications that are inaccurate. He also mentioned that it would be in France’s best interest to not cast blame on the plane itself since they have a financial interest in it’s success. Sooooo, blame the pilot. Always, especially if the pilot is already dead, blame the pilot.
Just his two cents worth......
Static sourses telling crew the ship is falling.. -10k’ fpm vertical speed and altimeter in death spin but hey, lets not notice.
I'm not a pilot either, but you would think that one of the pilots would have noticed the altimeter rapidly decreasing. That coupled with the fact that the stall warning had already sounded should have given them a clue.
Final vertical speed = -10912 ft/min = -124 MPH. Perhaps some of the passengers could have been alive for a while.
I think that plane crash, in Buffalo, a few years back was the result of the same type of pilot error.