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by RockyMcNuts 4482 days ago
It's a good debunking... but as a piss-poor private pilot, I think he, an advanced test pilot, might underestimate the ability of some pilots to stray pretty far from how they are trained, in a highly stressful situation, and possibly more so in less advanced countries or airlines where they are not highly incentivized to always do everything by the book... see the Korean crash at SFO... And even on AF 447 allegedly the co-pilot was pulling back on the stick in a stall... so was the Colgan Air pilot in the US -

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/14/buffalo.crash.colgan.air/

http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/farnborough-air-show/...