Originally posted by guamainiac
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They had the static ports covered, so they had neither speed, nor altitude, nor vertical speed.
Yet, after managing to do some things well, they made a number of errors that killed them: They relied on the altitude provided by the ATCs radar thinking that it was an independent and reliable source, when in fact it's provided by the on-board mode-C transponder which gets the info from an encoding altimeter which get's the pressure.... yes from the static ports covered with tapes. AND, they didn't use that radioaltimeter information that they had available which WAS a reliable and independent source.
I'm not blaming them. That situation is a thing for which they were not trained. But the plane could have been brought down safely.
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