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by mrguyorama 1905 days ago
A huge problem with that incident is that as the plane got deeper into the stall, the computer decided it couldn't get an accurate idea of what was going on and STOPPED giving the stall warning. This lead to the crummy situation where pulling back on the stick made the warnings go away, despite being the exact opposite control input required.

This situation is 100% opposite of basic stall recovery, but I don't know how much that still works when you are panicking and no longer feel like you can trust your instruments or your plane

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The phrase "the computer decided" gives way more agency to the computer than it deserves in this instance. In reality it was a simple airspeed threshold below which no one imagined the aircraft actually flying.

It was a really tragic accident with many lessons for anyone involved in the design of critical systems.