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Re:Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery by johno215 on Saturday May 28, 2011 @11:51AM (#2594616)
From what I understand, the instruments may have shown that airspeed was increasing when it was not. So the pilots tried to pitch up to reduce excessive airspeed but this in reality just caused them to go deeper into the stall. There was a stall sensors but they chose to ignore it in favor of the faulty airspeed sensor.

A case of lack of situational awareness or rather faulty situational awareness brought on by a sensor failure.

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Re:Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery by epochwolf on Saturday May 28, 2011 @07:00PM (#2595401)
A little background on the warnings. There are no specific sensors for them. They are issued by the computer when it detects a dangerous situation, which it uses a variety of inputs to determine. With unreliable airspeed and altitude (pitots tubes not working) the overspeed warning should have been ignored completely and the stall would have to be verified with other data if possible.
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