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To: Neeka who wrote (429731)6/2/2011 3:52:28 PM
From: Geoff Altman  Read Replies (3) of 794161
 
Would the pilot slow the aircraft down when approaching a storm?

Yes, whenever a pilot thinks he's entering turbulent air he'll slow the AC to minimize stress.

There's a thing called a pitot tube on almost all airplanes that enables instruments like the altimeter and airspeed indicator to work. The pitot tube also has a heating element in it so it won't ice up in bad weather, (and believe me when I tell you that it gets HOT, had a run in with one...<g>). From what I heard from the initial story was that their pitot iced up which plugs the tube and makes it inoperative.... which says to me their pitot heater wasn't working.

Even if you have no instruments a pilot should be able to fly and land his plane.... Hell, John Travolta did it in his Gulfstream when he had a complete instrument failure...

There's usually only one reason for an accident like this but that one reason many times leads to many other mistakes......
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