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filleduchaostoday at 11:35 AM1 replyview on HN

No, one of the pilots put the plane into an aerodynamic stall because they had failed sensors giving them erroneous airspeed information and he kept overriding the other pilot who was doing the correct thing to recover from the stall he had put the aircraft in.

What exactly was a computer at the time supposed to figure out with unreliable data, especially after a stall had first developed?

Also in fairness I was a bit too opaque with my point, which is that 1) LVL requires the pilot to actually press it, which they are unlikely to do if like you yourself have mentioned they are clueless about what situation they're actually in, and 2) LVL is not appropriate stall recovery so I don't really see how it is relevant to a case of an aerodynamic stall.


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Mawrtoday at 2:34 PM

"and he kept overriding the other pilot who was doing the correct thing to recover from the stall he had put the aircraft in."

Yep, the real design problem here is the idiocy of allowing dual input.

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