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Non-clinical analogue. Iced pitot probes caused inconsistent airspeeds, the autopilot disconnected, and the crew did not recognise or recover from a stall.
NON-CLINICAL ANALOGUE. According to the BEA final report (July 2012), obstruction of the Airbus A330's pitot probes by ice crystals caused a temporary inconsistency in measured airspeeds, which disconnected the autopilot and reconfigured the flight controls to alternate law. The crew's control inputs destabilised the flight path, they did not link the loss of airspeed indications to the relevant procedure, and they did not identify the approach to stall or the stall itself; the aircraft, carrying 228 people, struck the surface of the ocean. The BEA cited an absence of high-altitude manual handling training and of training on the speed-anomaly procedure, task-sharing weakened by startle and incomprehension, the lack of a clear cockpit display of the airspeed inconsistencies, and the crew not taking the stall warning into account.[1,2]
Non-clinical: loss of the aircraft with 228 people on board.
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