Details emerge of Air France B777 landing incident
As soon as I heard the plane was "unresponsive" to controls I immediately though pilot error just because how unlikely a plane is to be actually unresponsive to controls.<p>Edit: Wow - reading the report I see they got to a 24 degree pitch angle on go around? That seems high, I thought you topped out at 15 or so. This is Air France stuff all over again with the pitch up into a stall etc. I'd love to know how experienced the FO was.<p>"Eventually a point is reached whereby any further increase in angle of attack does not produce an increase in lift, and this point is called the stalling, or critical, angle of attack. Each airfoil has a different critical angle of attack, but with typical general aviation airfoils it is roughly 16 to 20 degrees. "<p>Pitch and AoA are different, but during a landing / go around you are in a low speed regime and it just seems like pitching to nearly 30 degrees nose up is excessive. Is that Air France's standard go around vs 10-15?<p>The true story might be that the captain saved this plane with his nose down inputs.