“If the pilot was getting high airspeed readings from the computers,”
I believe there are 3 air data computers on this aircraft and multiple pitot tubes and AOA vanes. If the ADCs don’t agree there would be a CAS message for ADC miscompare. I think there would be an overspeed warning. Did the auto throttle disengage with the over speed?
It is being presented as complete failure of the air data system. I have been in flight test for 30 years and have never heard of catastrophic failure of the air data system. something else is going on here.
regards
dozer
I do not agree. I think the report makes clear that the data was conflicting.
IIRC, there were multiple warnings of miscompare. The triple redundancy is OK if there is only one bad sensor or computer, and the FCS will vote out the bad result (assuming the voter is not the malfunction). However, two bad components and the triple redundancy is insufficient — you need quad redundancy.