[VTenigma]

Reports have it as a clear air flight. Pitot issues possible but unlikely. The pitot issue seems to croy up in foul weather were massive icing occers due to deluge.

[VTenigma]

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[RayChuang88]

The reason why I mentioned pitot issues is because on modern Airbus airliners, the pitot tubes on the front of the plane are critical in providing data to the fly-by-wire computers. If the pitot tubes freeze up, that can cause erroneous readings, and one wonders if Indonesia AirAsia 8501--another A320--crashed because the flight crew did not respond properly to a failing pitot tube issue while flying in that thunderstorm.