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3 pilots, only one is seasoned, the other two are pretty junior
- 3 pilots, only one is seasoned, the other two are pretty junior
- Senior pilot goes for required sleep half way through the flight
- Bad thunderstorm over the equator, 3 pitot tubes iced up
- Plane automation turned off and reverted to alternate law
- Junior pilots poorly trained to actually fly a plane in alternate law and with no outside reference (no horizon)
- They can’t figure out how much to pull the nose up or down despite a standby instrument which admittedly is not easy to find in an emergency
- They panic and make many other mistakes including overriding one another => having someone in charge to synchronize efforts, matters
AF447, what went wrong