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To: NorseWood
If the pilot had time to dump fuel, wouldn't he also have been able to avoid hitting such a narrow peninsula?
148 posted on 11/12/2001 1:22:02 PM PST by aristeides
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To: aristeides
If the pilot had time to dump fuel, wouldn't he also have been able to avoid hitting such a narrow peninsula?

Not With The Tail Missing.No Rudder Control.
169 posted on 11/12/2001 1:32:07 PM PST by cmsgop
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To: aristeides
Re: missing the peninsula...

Once you lose your vertical stabilizer, any pitch control is gone. Here, from my friend at Airborne, from Avsig:

"Looks like the vertical stabilizer was found some distance from the fuselage. With an engine out (missing) and no vertical stab it's not surprising that they lost control. What I want to know now is how the vertical stab became detached. All I can think of is the departing engine might have hit the vertical stabilizer but the pictures of the stab didn't show any signs of such an impact."

193 posted on 11/12/2001 1:53:46 PM PST by bootless
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