“I don’t understand the problem of pitot tube icing because they have heaters in them and they will get hot enough to burn the crap out of you on the ground.”
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There was a thread on this accident, all day yesterday.
I questioned the idea of the pitot freezing and some CLAIM that there was no pitot heaters on those Airbus planes.
That is almost impossible to believe.
My simple planes all had heated pitot tubes.
I also pointed out that the first thing any student pilot knows is to push the stick forward in a stall, but I got a lot of mumbo jumbo about that, too. Oh well.
About 20 years ago in my previous life, I was a commercial aircraft electrical and electronics technician. EVERY aircraft has pitot heaters. When the aircraft is on the ground and have power on for any length of time, they pull the pitot heater breakers. It is inconceivable that they would not have pitot heaters.
The problem I see is that after the pilots got the false stall warning they disregarded the air speed and as they fell, they pulled back on the yoke to try to gain altitude instead of pushing on it to gain airspeed.