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Maybe it malfunctioned, I don't know. I think it was the fact that their airspeed was low and they climbed so fast that led to this theory. Maybe they didn't realize how slow they were going and stalled the aircraft. Anyway, at this point everything is speculation.
There's no such thing as a routine aviation accident, but there's nothing out of the ordinary with this one, that warrants a 20 page thread. Airplanes have been lost in weather related accidents since the beginning of aviation. Usually accentuated by some combination of equipment failure and/or pilot error. There's nothing to discuss here, until the accident report is published.
Interesting how people who seldom think of an airplane in their everyday lives, jump on to forums when a crash happens, and write in authoritarian tones.
We keep jumping to "weather related" honestly....we don't know. I'm looking forward to hearing the evidence when it comes out after the retrieve those boxes. Until then it's all speculation.
Radar data being examined by investigators appeared to show that AirAsia Flight QZ8501 made an "unbelievably" steep climb before it crashed, possibly pushing it beyond the Airbus A320's limits, said a source familiar with the probe's initial findings.
The data was transmitted before the aircraft disappeared from the screens of air traffic controllers in Jakarta on Sunday, added the source, who declined to be identified.
As cruel as this sounds, I hope the plane didn't make a survivable water landing. The agony for the families would be even worse if they knew their loved ones had a chance and didn't make it or that people survived only to drown waiting for rescue.
What a dumb article by Fox News. If a plane is stable enough to attempt a ocean crash landing, why didnt even 1 of the 2 pilots attempt to make radio contact with ATC if they had a emergency.
It could just as easily have been due to a violent updraft.
If the plane stalled as a result of this, recovery could have become very difficult if the plane was spinning/looping/spiraling and/or not in a nose down attitude and continued to be buffeted by severe updrafts, downdrafts, micro-bursts, etc.
Conditions like this are hard to simulate, but it would be interesting to know what experienced pilots, here, think the chances of recovery might have been under the worst conditions.
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