PARIS (Reuters) – Air France pilots who reported their Boeing 777 was failing to respond while preparing to land earlier this month simultaneously pulled the controls in opposite directions, French investigators said.
Flight 11 was on final approach to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport with 177 passengers onboard after a six-hour trip from New York when the landing was abruptly aborted on April 5.
In a radio exchange circulated on the Internet, a pilot was overheard in the background exclaiming “stop, stop” and the captain