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Pilot pulls nose up so much that the plane enters a deep stall
- Pilot pulls nose up so much that the plane enters a deep stall
- It gets so slow that the stall warning turns off while in a very deep stall because programmer thought a plane couldn’t actually fly that slowly
- An airbus would never allow a pilot to do this, but in alternate law, it has to.
- Plane falls out of the sky, the least experienced pilot pulls the stick to continue the stall (rookie mistake) while the somewhat better one pushes it down
- Airbus averages both inputs without pilots really knowing.
- Plane stays in a deep stall and crashes in the ocean at 3000 meters/mn falling rate. Everyone dies, it takes over a year to find the black boxes.
- Airbus programmers said it was the pilots’ fault for both trying to fly at the same time against procedures. Airbus planes still average input from 2 pilots without force feedback to either pilot.
AF447, what went wrong (2)