-=> While breaking out of cloud Jim Dawson boldly told Christopher about RE:
NEWS-946
JD> An Air China crew in an Airbus was not completely familiar with the
JD> fly by wire FMS during a go around at (I think) Nagoya and crashed
JD> after selecting the wrong mode. The plane climbed at a very steep
JD> angle, stalled and rolled off on a wing.
I think it was at Hong Kong, but I'm not sure myself. He pressed the TOGA
switches by accident and was fighting the climb up. It got too much
that he let go of the control column and climb at a very steep
angle and stalled.
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