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In the Air France crash over the Atlantic the first officer kept yanking his side-stick to full nose-up each time the stall warning sounded. The captain had come back into the cockpit and was trying to recover the jet from the deep stall and when they'd lower the nose the stall warning, which went silent when the jet was fully stalled, came back on. The FO panicked and yanked his stick back. The captain overrode the FO's stick input at least once--each stick has an override button for the other stick--but the panicked FO overrode the captain's override and kept the jet in the deep stall. I hate to admit pilot error as an airline pilot but pilot error played a major part in the Air France loss.
I'm a Boeing guy so the Airbus guys are welcome to correct or clarify my explanation.
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Last edited by BE911SC; 03-24-2015 at 06:30 PM..
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