Originally Posted by
wheels_down
There was no recovery at all in the dive which backs up the structural failure theory. They obviously had no control whatsoever in the high energy dive as considering the clear conditions (they would have seen the ocean floor approaching) there would have been some form of correction to avoid impact, but the numbers don’t show this.
There is a lot of talk about pitot gives giving incorrect readings but this still does not explain why it dropped like a rock in VMC. There would have been some form of correction on the way down.
I agree with you, it should have been some kind of correction. However when I think of extreme rate of descent and speed of jack screw I could imagine how little they were able to do...