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Link Posted: 6/9/2017 10:53:04 AM EST
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Pretty much what I was just thinking.  The center of that wing better be a whole lot stronger than it looks...or that thing is going to fall apart if it ever gets rough up there.
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Is there enough wing in the center that it could break in half, stay flying and both halves could be landed by good pilots? Because I want video of that.
Link Posted: 6/9/2017 11:51:29 AM EST
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He responded the way the FAA and his airline told him to respond, because what pilots had been taught for years was incorrect regarding aircraft certification criteria.
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You mean where the pilot broke the stabilizer off because he didn't know how to respond to turbulence properly? Newsflash, all planes can be made to disintegrate in mid-air when they are flown outside their design parameters.
He responded the way the FAA and his airline told him to respond, because what pilots had been taught for years was incorrect regarding aircraft certification criteria.
What? Nobody ever taught him to bang the rudder rapidly, back and forth, full deflection. AA training at the time did make a point of demonstrating that at high AOA, swept wing jets can respond in roll more effectively with rudder than aileron, but all the recorded training videos emphasized smoothness.
If he had been taught to do what he did then so would all the other pilots and Airbuses would have been falling out of the sky all over the world. His rudder inputs were far from the norm and he had been criticized years before his accident for excessive and abrupt rudder usage. Airbus 300s have flown through wake turbulence thousands of times before this accident without problems. The difference this time was that Molin did something no other pilot had ever done. This cannot be denied. If that had been the captain's leg to fly it wouldn't have crashed.
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