With heavy jets, once a stall occurs, can there be a recovery?
Denzel Washington did it in the movie “Flight,” so it must be possible. </sarcasm>
Depends on the altitude.
Yes. From the bottom of the ocean......................
They were high enough (32,000 ft) to have plenty of time to recover from a stall.
I’m not absolutely certain, but I believe the answer to that is “Yes”, if the pilots can get the nose down and there’s enough altitude to recover.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Industrie_Flight_129
“With heavy jets, once a stall occurs, can there be a recovery?”
Yup, given they’ve got enough altitude...which they did.
Civilian aircraft are specified to have designs that’ll allow full recovery...it’s only the fighters that’ll bite you back if you don’t sprinkle the magic “stick” dust very early in the stall. (Sort of an exaggeration, but - depending on the A/C, not much.)
Of course if you have enough altitude for a recovery.
“With heavy jets, once a stall occurs, can there be a recovery?”
From the sounds of it, and is was true in the Air France flight, if the pilots had let go of everything it is quite like the aircraft would have flown itself out of the trouble it was in. Pretty much most modern airline aircraft are designed to recover from a stall ‘hand off’ as long as the CG is within limits.