AirAsia 8501 Stall Warnings 'Screaming' Before Crash: Reports

[FLPanhandle]

Source: NBC

Warning alarms can be heard "screaming" on the cockpit voice recorder of AirAsia Flight 8501 before it crashed, an investigator was quoted as saying Wednesday.

Among the audible alerts is one that indicated the plane is stalling, the investigator told Agence France-Presse (AFP) and the Wall Street Journal. NBC News was immediately unable to confirm the accounts.

The reports come a day after Indonesia's transport minister said the Airbus A320, which crashed last month with 162 people on board, was climbing at an abnormally high rate before it plunged and disappeared from radar.

"The warning [alarms] kept on screaming, and in the background, they [the pilot and co-pilot] were trying to recover the plane," the unidentified investigator told the WSJ. "But what they said wasn't clear." He added that the flight data recorder also indicated that stall warnings were going off.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/airasia-plane-crash/airasia-8501-stall-warnings-screaming-crash-reports-n290251

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This is looking more and more like pilot confustion/disorientation and/or instrument/computer failure.

[Brickbat]

1. I found this article very informative about the concept of pilot error.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877

[GliderGuider]

2. Coming right after a 6,000 fpm climb rate

it sounds a lot like weather-induced loss of control to me. What was the max altitude they reached? If they were in air that was too thin, a stall recovery might not have been possible.

[The Stranger]

3. What does a pilot do in that case?

Punch the accelerator to try to get the plane moving forward?

[jberryhill]

5. Depends on whether the pilot had conflicting information

...or perceptions.

[Blue_Tires]

9. Pilots are trained on stall and upset recovery...

But real life is a lot different than the simulator, and sometimes panic can set in

Generally you try to point the nose down to pick up some speed and regain authority of the control surfaces...

[One_Life_To_Give]

4. Sounds similar to the AirFrance crash in 2009

AirFrance Flight 447 crash was earily similar. In that case it was reportedly Ice Crystals in the AirSpeed Pitot tube.

[FLPanhandle]

6. That was my first thought

The two Airbus incidents sound eerily similar.

[cigsandcoffee]

7. I'm always relieved when the plane I fly on is a Boeing. n/t

[jakeXT]

8. Like MH370? /nt