Air Disasters

3.0L · 01-02-2023, 04:14 PM

The captain really screwed the pooch on this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407

Kolyan2k · 01-02-2023, 05:54 PM

Watched all of them. I don't fly budget airlines

Alfisti · 01-02-2023, 06:08 PM

The most baffling one to me is the Air France one where the pilots flew a perfectly good airliner into the water because the kept pitching the nose up and induced a stall rather than pitched own to regather speed.

Kolyan2k · 01-02-2023, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Alfisti

The most baffling one to me is the Air France one where the pilots flew a perfectly good airliner into the water because the kept pitching the nose up and induced a stall rather than pitched own to regather speed.

Is that the one with frozen pitot tubes?

kscarrol · 01-02-2023, 08:25 PM

Yes

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Alfisti Brigadier General 7018 Rep 3,373 Posts Drives: 2008 Saab 9-3 Combi Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Toronto, Canada iTrader: (0)	The most baffling one to me is the Air France one where the pilots flew a perfectly good airliner into the water because the kept pitching the nose up and induced a stall rather than pitched own to regather speed.
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