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Old 12-11-2011 | 04:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Airhoss
Both Boeing and Douglas have had similar accidents with the crew holding the aircraft into a stall from high altitude to ground impact.

I think there is a fundamental flaw in how we teach crews to recover from a stall especially in big jet airplanes. The whole pull back and power out ATP style stall recovery is killing people.
Originally Posted by olympic
I've been flying this plane for 7 months now ... Last sim ride did this same exact scenario , very difficult to recover but we did it and saved the aircraft at 10000 feet from 37000. Airbus says it is mandatory to do this on every sim ride from now on. Great read btw ... Very tragic.
My ignorance ... why did you have to descend so low? Aren't there known pitch and power settings for the bus?
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