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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (429741)6/2/2011 3:58:53 PM
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Exactly. There was a very thorough explanation of this crash a few months ago on one of the science channels.

First, that night there was a storm in their flight path. They diverted to avoid it and ran slam into an even bigger one they didn't see because it was behind the first one.

This type of storm has lots of supper cooled water vapor. Instantly iced up the pitot tube.

Airbus quietly replace all the pitot tubes with an improved model on all their planes after this.

Because of the frozen pitot tube all hell broke loose in the cabin. There were some 35 alarms going off. One alarm told the pilots they were dangerously over speed. Another one said they were near to a stall.

They recreated the situation in a simulator. All of the experienced pilots handled the situation no problem. A surprising number of younger pilots did exactly what these guys did.

They revamped the pilot training curriculum after this.
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