The EPR reading that fooled the autothrottle - did they land in time?
A night flight over the Sahara loses its autothrottle signals and the cockpit falls silent - did they land in time?The EPR reading that fooled the autothrottle - did they land in time?In this episode, we follow the final thirty-two minutes of Air Algérie Flight AH5017, piecing together flight-data traces, maintenance logs, and crew records to show the chain of events that unfolded over the Sahara. What decisions, warnings, and system failures shaped those last minutes, and could the crew have known what was happening soon enough?Date: 24 July 2014Flight: AH5017Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas…
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