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		teyc on Dec 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What really happened aboard Air France 447 `The plane tried to physically force the controls to nose down,` I'm glad you mentioned that. I thought that's what a plane should do at first, and then on second consideration wondered if the psychology of panicking pilots would be to fight the controls in order to wrest the plane from going down.

jrockway on Dec 8, 2011 [–]

It does seem like that happens. Wikipedia links to a few incidents involving the stick pusher:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick_pusher

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