CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield March 21, 2014 16:58:00
They got iced up. what happened, the air speed indicator acted like an altimeter. so when the aircraft climbed, showed it was increasing in speed. that obviously wasn't happening. the pilots reacted to pulling the power back. that's the way you control the speed. what happened is that they didn't realize they were climbing, pulling the power back, enter the catastrophic stall, huge loss of lift on the wing and descended from 35,000 feet into the ocean. the pilots had no idea that the flight envelope was exactly that. and so there was no distress call put out. there was no 7700 put out on the t...
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