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Pitot tubes, even when jammed, are not the only instrumentation a plane has. In this particular case, whatever gyroscope device is available would probably signal that the angle of attack is completely wrong, tubes or no tubes.



AOA != pitch


True, of course. Still, any such automated system would have to have massive redundancy and sophisticated heuristics just to get certified.


But without Pitot tubes, what indication of airspeed does one have? And without airspeed, I would think that it is the computer that just hit the panic button.




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