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Old 15th Mar 2018, 13:49
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Genghis,

The Tucano accident was not a trim runaway but an inadvertent full nose down trim input during an inverted spin. I have actually done this during the initial spinning trials and the aeroplane was easily recoverable. As you say, there were other factors.

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