Friday, May 27, 2011

Air France crash co-pilots fought with controls

http://www.thebeerbarrel.net/showthread.php?7747-Air-France-crash-co-pilots-fought-with-controls

They show inconsistent speed readings, two co-pilots working methodically to right the plane manually and a resting captain returning to the cockpit amid what moments later became an irretrievably catastrophic situation. The data also showed that the plane went into an aerodynamic stall — — a loss of lift brought on by too little speed.
Investigators only provided partial quotes from the voice recorder in Friday's report.
The report confirmed that two sets of instruments on the plane were giving conflicting speed readings. On the voice recorder, one co-pilot is heard to say "so we've lost the speeds" about four minutes before the crash.

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