Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
We can argue all day about whether they should have had stick pusher training. The reality is, they failed the first basic law of flying, stall recovery. They never applied max power, he kept the nose up, and she decreased lift by raising the flaps. That airplane never should have hit the ground.
I feel like I'm completely stating the obvious, but it seems like most people in their ranting on APC the past few days have been missing the point of this accident.
This crew executed the procedure to recover from a tailplane stall situation. This was everyone's initial first reaction the day after this incident. This message forum was rife with people discussing tailplane stalls. (Turboprops with T-tails+Icing, correct procedure: reduce power, reduce flaps, pull back)
I'm sure both pilots were knowledgeable about how and why an airplane stalls. The crew members acted together to fix a wrong scenario.
Tragic.