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To: IFly4Him
it was flying and reacting normally to cockpit commands when its speed bled off and it went into a fatal roll

Very strange circumstance then 

3 posted on 03/26/2009 2:42:03 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: valkyry1
...reacting normally to cockpit commands when its speed bled off and it went into a fatal roll.

From the beginning, I was very suspicious of why things happened quickly it seems as soon as the flaps were deployed to their initial approach configuration.

It was reported that the aircraft went in to an immediate reversal of direction and then crashed.

Wouldn't this kind of thing (bleed off roll) happen if say one wing had flaps deployed but the other did not? Might this happen if a gear was stuck on one flap? say with icing or some other reason? Also woudn't this account for a pitch up, roll and quick bleed off of airspeed too?,

Does anyone know whether this airplane has two flap motors or. one? ( I have 50 plus years of pilot-flying experience in general aviation aircraft, but by no means am I an aviation expert.)

8 posted on 03/26/2009 3:06:11 PM PDT by 386wt (Striving to be as good as my dog thinks I am.)
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