Air France crash pilots ignored engine warnings

French investigators say the crew of the 2009 Air France crash ignored repeated warnings that the plane's engines were stalling. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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[Grroocx]

@davidthmovies, the engine didn't stall—the wing stalled; i.e. it lost its lift. Cockpit tech refers to Airbus computer tech. The question is whether pilots should be more able to "fly the plane" in the traditional sense, rather than rely on the computer to do so. When the automatic controls suddenly—and correctly—handed the extremely challenging decisions over to the AF447 pilots that night, the pilots were not able to rise to the occasion. Pilot error, yes; but because of Air France training.

[ryanhaart]

The poster of this vid is clueless and daft. The engines didn't stall, the wings did. Please do not post videos with "explanations" if you do not know what you are talking about.

[FishFanify]

THE WING STALLED, NOT THE ENGINES.

[organfreak]

@210482fmj

The official investigational authority is called BEA. They have issued three interim reports with a final one due this July. Get out yer Google and read up. The industry has every reason to care about solving crashes like this, for one thing, it's bad for business.

[organfreak]

@hassannassaralah

The rest requirements are set by law, and for good reason. Everyone in the cockpit should have been fully qualified to hand-fly this airplane at high altitude and speed (difficult task) but they were not.

[adam3176]

Sounds good for some False Flags.. They Are all gona claim they cant fly Planes now.. WHAT A JOKE.. Yea Blame all the pilots

[210482fmj]

@AvaitonCrazy1 I feel sorry for the victims families. I bet you they have not heard a thing from air france or the authorities. DOn't believe everything you here on the news. I have seen just how useless the authorities are at the moment. My general feelijng is they may not even care. NO insult to the victims or families intended but every day i sense a general feeling of contempt in people attiude towards each other at the best of times you generally feel people just couldn't care less.

[AvaitonCrazy1]

you know what i think..... its was just the shitty airbus in genaral BOEING all the way

[hassannassaralah]

@R4M0N no i know a good bit about flying but what i was trying to say is the capyin was in his bunk now they wer only a few hrs into the flight so hw probally should have been at the controles..they say a lot of captins are at the controles for take off then hit the bunk and get back at the controles for the landing..im not saying it was him but it was someones fault the plane crashed.

[R4M0N]

@hassannassaralah You clearly don't know much about flying commercial airplanes. On long flights (over 8 hours), one pilot will not fly the plane for the duration of the flight. They are human and need rest. That's why on some flights you have the captain, and one or more crew members qualified to fly the plane, they will take turns at the controls while the other rests. That's not even counting the relief crew. A tired pilot is more dangerous than any thunderstorm.

[organfreak]

The statement that the engine(s) stalled is completely wrong: in fact they were producing full thrust all the way to impact, thus rendering this news report completely useless.