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To: null and void

I am unsure who was in charge during the stall - the computer, or the doomed pilots?

What flight control commands were executed, and which were ignored?


44 posted on 07/31/2011 10:18:39 AM PDT by patton (I am sure that I have done dumber things in my life, but at the moment, I am unable to recall them.)
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To: patton
I am unsure who was in charge during the stall - the computer, or the doomed pilots?

On Airbus the computer is ALWAYS in control. The pilot inputs are merely suggestions for the 'puter.

51 posted on 07/31/2011 10:35:46 AM PDT by null and void (Day 920. When your only tools are a Hammer & Sickle, everything looks like a Capitalist...)
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