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Message started by lagraf05 on Jul 13th, 2012 at 10:43am

Title: Re: Autopilot/CWS?
Post by bud7h7 on Jul 13th, 2012 at 9:18pm
Southwest Flight 209 crash report summary:

It has been determined that pilot error was the cause of the crash that killed all 126.3 onboard.

Pilot did not twiddle flight control, resulting in the AP CWS maintaining pitch until the aircraft stalled 1.5 minutes after taking off. Only a brief communication between the pilots was recorded:

10:32:01 pm --  Pilot: Bloody hell, this piece of ....

10:32:05 pm -- Copilot: Twiddle, twiddle!

10:32:07 pm -- Pilot: What?

10:32:09 pm -- Copilot: Twiddle. You might need to twiddle. (stall warning horn in background)

. . . . . . .

10:32:18 pm -- Pilot: What?

10:32:19 pm -- <radio static>


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