Rick Umali wrote:


In the last part of the program, the subject turned to the recovery
procedures used by the pilots. I'm not a pilot, so I'll have to paraphrase,
but essentially the plane could have still been flown with its missing
engine if the pilots recognized they were in a stall (the pilot in question
didn't have a "stick shaker" to warn him of this).

The problem was not that they stalled. The problem is that when the
wing departed it caused the leading edge slat on that side not to
extend. When they slowed down to the single engine best rate
of climb speed (which was the proper official procedure), the
ONE SIDE stalled. I'm not sure a stick shaker or other stall
warning would have helped here unless there was a specific design
for the assymetric configuration that happened.

Had they symmetrically stalled, they would have just controllably
lost altitude and might have even recovered.