[Political Junkie Too]

And yet, many pilots would have landed the plane safely. So what is it when some pilots can handle the situation, and some pilots cannot? Pilot error? Pilot ignorance?

I think it amounts to how forgiving the situation is to error.

Landing isn't the problem, take-off is. The problem is when the plane thinks it is stalling because the angle of attack is high during take-off. The computer tries to nudge the nose down, but there isn't a lot of room for error when the pilot is just taking off.

It would be different if this happened at cruising altitude where the pilot has miles of altitude to correct the problem.

-PJ

[cymbeline]

“The problem is when the plane thinks it is stalling because the angle of attack is high during take-off.”

I believe what you’re saying but why would the plane’s autopilot think it was stalling. Wouldn’t it understand that that’s part of the plane’s behavior?