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To: Red Badger

I’ve seen plenty of videos showing a plane losing power, it doesn’t translate to just falling out of the sky like this. Wouldn’t you have to lose control of all the flight control surfaces? flaps, etc..?

...unless he had a heart attack or something and slumped over the yoke?


7 posted on 04/01/2025 7:44:08 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: fuzzylogic
...unless he had a heart attack or something and slumped over the yoke?

That was my guess.

12 posted on 04/01/2025 7:52:46 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: fuzzylogic

I saw an expert video interview yesterday. It is very likely that the plane iced up and the pilot did not notice it in time leading to a stall. The stock auto pilot on those planes does not manage the throttles. So if the auto pilot was engaged then it could have kept pitching the plane up(Trying to maintain altitude) causing a loss of air speed until it stalled. It is up to the pilot of monitor the throttles and air speed. There were ice warnings in the area he was landing.


22 posted on 04/01/2025 10:15:55 AM PDT by Revel
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