Marc Lattoni wrote:

Last night on Discovery Channel there was a story of a Peruvian 757 that
went down because the two static ports had been taped over for cleaning and
not removed. As you might imagine, the airspeed indicator and altimeter gave
erroneous readings and fed the onboard computers erroneous data; after a
series of bizarre warning messages (zero airspeed and "over speed warning"
from the computer) the pilots attempted to correct for contradictory
information and multiple warnings and the plane crashed into the ocean

I do not know the answer to your question, but an important point about
this crash is that the aircraft was completely flyable and should never
have gone down.

What caused the aircraft to crash was the fact that both pilots were so
distracted attempting to troubleshoot the problem that neither paid any
attention to flying the aircraft. I couldn't tell from your synopsis if
you were aware that the availability of alternate air was most likely
irrelevant to the outcome of this unfortunate accident.

--
Peter