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This is the story of air transat flight 211. On the 5th of march 2008 air air transat airbus a310 was making the flight from quebec international airport to montreal international airport. This was the final leg of a two leg flight earlier on in the day the plane had come back in from paris, on the ground at quebec 139 passengers got off and now the plane had 9 crew members and 89 passengers onboard for the flight to montreal. At 2:15 pm the plane was autorized to taxi to runway 06 and to fly the standard instrument departure two SID 2 departure out of quebec. As the plane taxied the crew did a a few control checks to make sure that the plane was responding to the controls of the pilots well. Since that no issues the pilots started to set the plane up for the upcoming takeoff. But at 2:38 pm the crew got new departure instructions, now after taking off from runway 06, they had to turn right at a heading of 110 and level off at 3000 feet and the contact the quebec terminal. This meant that the crew had to go over some new manuals but it wasnt anything that the trained crew couldnt handle, this was routine. At 2:39 pm the captain took the engines to max power as what was required of him for taking off from a contaminated runway. As an eastlerly wind buffeted the plane the airbus a310 picked up speed as it thundered down the runway at quebec. Within seconds they were airborne and flight 211 continued to pick up speed. As they were climbing away the pilot put the plane into a right hand bank to turn onto the heading that the controller had given them. As the plane gained altitude the flaps and gear were retracted and the autopilot was engaged. The nose of the plane at this point was at about 19 degrees and they were climbing at 6300 feet per minute. This plane was climbing pretty aggressively. For some context at this point the plane should be at about 10-12 degrees of pitch. But just 5 seconds after the autopilot came on the captain disconnected the autopilot and the autopilot disconnect warning filled the cockpit. As the plane closed in on 3000 feet the nose of the plane started to drop. At 3100 feet the plane stopped climbing and then started to descend. Then it started to pick up speed. The descent rate was at 2000 feet per minute as they crossed through their assigned altitude of 3000 feet. The first officer warned the captain that they were in a nose down position and the captain pulled back on the yoke in an attempt to get the plane to respond. But still the nose stayed down and flight 211 picked up speed and screamed towards the ground. In the cockpit the pilots pulled back power on the engines in an attempt to get the speed of the plane under control if they kept this up the flaps on the flaps on the wings would be ripped clean off. But the opposite happened the engines were ramping up to max power. Sending the plane even faster they were now at 2800 feet and running out of altitude. The first officer again warned the captain that the plane was diving but the captain was so focused that he did not respond. Now the control panel was lit up with caution lights. The first officer saw that nothing was changing and he told the captain that he had control, the captain let go of the yoke. The first officer was swift he disabled the autothrottle and pulled back power to 45%. The plane was now going 260 knots in a dive and accelerating. But despite this the plane nosed down even more to 6.7 degrees. They were now just 1454 feet off of the ground and the EGPWS or the enhanced grounded proximity warning system went off letting them know that they were sinking way too fast. That warning was joined by an overspeed warning as they now pushed past 345 knots. The sink rate warning was then replaced by a dont sink terrain warning and then by a too low terrain alert. You get the picture flight 211 was running out of time. The pilots pulled back in a desperate attempt to save the plane and they slowly started to bottom out of the dive. At an altitude of 995 feet they started to climb again. The pilots fought to keep the plane in the climb and the captain put out a pan pan pan and told them that they had an airspeed indication issue and asked to climb to