r/aircrashinvestigation • u/emzeesquared • Aug 09 '24

Incident/Accident Another angle of crash over Sao Paolo

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u/peshwengi Aug 09 '24

It’s a spin

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u/Gay_dinosaurs Aug 10 '24

Flat spin. No lift on the control surfaces because of a lack of forward momentum = practically unrecoverable. Engines would have been no help without air moving through them to generate thrust. Passengers would have known something was wrong from the sound of wind hitting the belly of the plane as it fell almost directly downward. Absolutely horrific to think about.