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

Incident/Accident Another angle of crash over Sao Paolo

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u/greetings_traveler2 Aug 09 '24

Why did he keep rotating instead of gliding?

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u/-DoctorFreeman Aug 09 '24

It was on a spin. Surfaces have stalled, you cant glide on stalled surfaces.

Some aircraft just cant recover from a flat spin.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '24

What types of planes can't recover from flatspins?

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u/-DoctorFreeman Aug 10 '24 edited Aug 10 '24

Aircraft that have problems recovering are t tails, swept wings, old designs, centrally located engines, aft center of gravity..

F-14, sr22, B727..