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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (429729)	6/2/2011 3:24:06 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794254

Why would they stall? Would the pilot slow the aircraft down when approaching a storm? From all accounts, they'd been in the air for quite a period of time. Dinner had been served and passengers were settling in for the night.

To: Geoff Altman who wrote (429729)	6/2/2011 3:43:42 PM
From: Alan Smithee	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794254

When an airplane stalls you get a warning that's built into the aircraft design, buffeting. The wing is designed with a twist in it so that at the onset of a stall the inside root of the wing loses lift and stalls first while the end of the wing (where the ailerons are) continues to fly. These features allow the pilot to remain in control once a stall is detected. You don't need instruments to detect a stall, you can feel it in the seat of your pants. Sounds like they were over involved with erroneous indicators and forgot to fly the airplane..... Aviate, Navigate, Communicate, in that order.... In his book "Outliers," Malcolm Gladwell had a chapter on airliner crashes, notably the crash of a KAL flight and of an Avianca flight. His theory is that culture affects communications in the cockpit and can result in a cascade of bad decisions based on faulty communications. blogs.wsj.com It's an interesting read. Makes you wonder what was going on in the Air France cockpit that distracted the flight deck officers from detecting a stall.