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To: central_va

I’m not a pilot, but I seem to recall the Airbus disaster a few years ago, where the pilot went to sleep and left the plane in the hands of someone else. Plane went into a stall but for some reason the guy didn’t react, trying “bring the nose up, bring the nose up.” What if you accelerated? Wouldn’t that bring you out of the stall? I mean you’re flying like a rock. How do you get the nose up or down unless you accelerate and therefore create some air resistance or wouldn’t the acceleration change the airplanes angle?

Secondly, recorder said plane climbed 6000 ft in one minute. Was that an updraft causing that?


18 posted on 01/21/2015 11:23:13 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

That sounds like AF447. The captain was indeed sleeping at the time, then he came in and asked the co-pilot WTF was going on.


19 posted on 01/21/2015 11:24:40 AM PST by Gideon7
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To: nikos1121

All you have to do is let go of the back pressure on the yoke, go full power and level the wings. Your really don’t need to push the nose down either. It is the first thing you learn how to do in a plane after learning how to make a turn. Stalling at 32,000 feet is not serious.


22 posted on 01/21/2015 11:27:16 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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