AF447 Transcript

David Learmount’s article today reveals two key weaknesses: one in the crew and the other in the aircraft.

The crew had not clearly declared who was flying the aircraft – in airline lingo who was PF and who was PNF.

Airbus sidesticks add algebraically. When the aircraft hit the water the left sidestick had some nose-down input and the right sidestick was at full nose-up. The Trimmable Horizonal Stabilizer (the horizontal tail) was already at full nose-up, most likely because of continuous nose-up sidestick applied while in Alternate Law.

 

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