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paleotn

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6. Unless it was a massive control surface failure...

Reply to maxsolomon (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 23, 2022, 04:47 PM

Mar 2022

similar to Alaska Airlines flight 261. Both use a jackscrew mechanism for elevator control, so, like AA 261, it could be a maintenance issue. Other than that, there's not much that will pitch a commercial airliner into that sort of a dive...other than a pilot doing it intentionally. Your prediction was my first thought upon seeing the video.

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Pilot Suicide. maxsolomon Mar 2022 #1

My guess too. Native Mar 2022 #2

Hard to imagine any other cause for what happened. Coventina Mar 2022 #4

Highly unlikely brooklynite Mar 2022 #5

Unless it was a massive control surface failure... paleotn Mar 2022 #6

nose first into the ground llashram Mar 2022 #3