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Colyncase wrote:
"What I don't get is why the airspeed would get more attention than the
EFIS which would presumably say you are straight and level."
I recall reading an article quite a
few years ago, I think it was in the "Aftermath" column of Flying Magazine,
about a 727 crash that was that was initiated by a blocked pitot.
Actually I think the 727 has more than one pitot and all of them iced over due
to some problem. As I said it's been several years and I don't recall the
specifics of the malfunction that blocked the pitots. What I do remember
is that this occurred while only the flight deck crew was on board, during
either a ferry flight or a repositioning flight, and the pitot problem happened
during climbout. As you can imagine, as the aircraft climbed the airspeed
increased. The flight crew at first attributed the unusual climb and
airspeed readings to the fact that the plane was empty. They fixated
on the increasing airspeed and kept pulling back on the yokes; the airspeed
continued to increase. What they thought was a mach buffet was the
beginnings of a stall. They never did figure out what was going on,
stalled the aircraft, and spun in.
Tom Gourley
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Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 8:43 PM
Subject: [LML] Re: Sterling Ainsworth
accident
Hamid wrote
Can an average pilot assess the situation with enough confidence to
overcome all their training and cut the power and pull up when everything is
pointing to a stall or an imminent stall? Can an average pilot do that
in less time than it took you to read this post?
Yes I read that post. What I don't get is why the airspeed
would get more attention than the EFIS which would presumably say you are
straight and level.
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