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To: Pearls Before Swine

“Does this mean they lost engine power and were trying to glide in? Asking the FR pilots.”

The props feathered so they had no thrust.


7 posted on 02/09/2023 12:28:10 PM PST by dljordan
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Think there was speculation among pilots that the crash followed a stall due to the turn into final approach being too tight. So it wasn’t the engines cutting out that caused the crash in their opinion, it was the low air speed that caused the stall (that caused the crash).


9 posted on 02/09/2023 12:34:26 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (If Arizona held the Olympic Games, Usain Bolt would lose to Joe Biden)
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To: dljordan

To my knowledge props can only be feathered by deliberate human action with dedicated controls for feathering. From the brief video it appeared left wing stalled and plane went into spin. Would indicate plane just going too slow on approach.


22 posted on 02/09/2023 1:48:04 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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