Metroliner Crash Malta
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FuzzyLogic said:
yellowjack said:
Or is it just a coincidence, and neither crash has anything to do with stability problems with this particular design?
You should have a read of the accident report for the Cork accident.. Lets just say there was a lot of other factors involved over and above the aircraft!one accident per year>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Swearingen...
It doesnt say how many end upside down
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Swearingen...
It doesnt say how many end upside down
yellowjack said:
FuzzyLogic said:
yellowjack said:
Or is it just a coincidence, and neither crash has anything to do with stability problems with this particular design?
You should have a read of the accident report for the Cork accident.. Lets just say there was a lot of other factors involved over and above the aircraft!To attain a certificate of airworthiness an aircraft needs to be stable. Nothing certified to carrying commercial passengers will just flip upside down if the pilot isn't looking. There are no Lancia Stratos type airliners.
Some perfectly safe aircraft can however exhibit a sharp roll if stalled whilst side-slipping. Many light aircraft will "drop a wing" when stalled generally, but this usually means rolling 15~25deg or so and it's no big deal really. To roll an aircraft this size inverted, it needs to be stalled in a very assymetric manner. This could be caused by very poor piloting (e.g. through extreme distraction or incapacitation) or quite easily achieved on multi-engine aircraft by stalling with assymetric power (e.g. one engine dead and the other at high power).
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