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That was a surprising read. Normally reports about French aircraft and French aero companies are somewhat thin on facts and is the fault of anyone except the people or companies involved when done by the BEA..... :-/

Matt

This might just be my opinion but if anyone should be blamed the pilot crew should be last. I think that this was more of a wake up call for the training given to commercial pilots. Clearly this was a situation no one had thought of happening and for that matter no one had trained these, and probably many others, how to correctly fix this problem.

I read this quote from a report...

"No one was trained for high-altitude stall recovery in the cockpit. It's not part of the normal training curriculum...this is something that really has to be reformed globally. This is a really big deal."

This crash is very unfortunate and sad but it's a huge learning step for future commercial pilots. Whenever I see any article that states blame towards the crew, or how easy it would have been to avoid, it really seems to put me in a bad mood. It's easy for us to say "how this could have been avoided" when before no one obviously planned for it to happen.

For a crew in a panic situation with little to no training on the subject it seems to me that any other pilot put in that situation wouldn't have done much better.