[quote=kev374]interesting, I just watched the documentary of this on Netflix.[/quote]
Actually I just watched it as well on Netflix about 2 months ago.
The largest take-away from the show was that the pilots failed to execute proper prodcedure and thus were entirely resonsable. In the documentary, Nova I think, they threw the exact same failures at senior instructors in the cockpit. These instructors were not briefed to what they would be doing and had recovered the aircraft in about 15 seconds. Thus providing evidence that the failure to recover was due to a lack of proper response.
The recovery efforts they invoked were the same Airbus bragged about years ago when the debuted a new series about the aircraft being stall proof.
What the instructors did was to raise the nose, contrary to what most pilots would do in a stall, and to go flaps down with the engines to 85 percent power. This places the aircraft in a very stable configuration where the plane’s wing will generate enough lift to maintain flight in all conditions.
The reason, they explained, that you dont go to full power and point the aircraft down has everything to do with the wing design. The aircraft’s wing, if it is going to fast, start to build a shock wave over the leading edge and interupts the airflow to the extent that the wing will lose lift. The used another term for this but I know the concept is also call compressibility. That is why they pitched the nose/wings up so that wings will create lift while not inducing compressibility.
Air France is trying to quash this information because they know they have a huge lawsuit coming.
This also goes directly to what the captain of the East River landing said about the lack of experienced pilots.
