Originally Posted by
Dave Therhino
A "4g pushover" (-4g, or even -3g) is well beyond the design envelope. They were in a 4g pull up for the last several seconds - maybe that's what you read?
From ABusDrivr's post above:
Originally Posted by
ABusDrivr
They hit a negative 4 G dive initialy on the FOs push. All you hear is stuff hitting the ceiling and at one point a loud thud. They think the thud may have been the
JS hitting the ceiling and maybe not wearing the shoulder harness.
Originally Posted by
DJ77
4g or 49 ?
Certainly a good possibility that a typo could be the source of this claim.
Originally Posted by
ABusDrivr
I have tried to respond a few times but for some unknown reason my responses are not being posted. The sequence of events I posted came from a non-Atlas pilot only forum from a US airline. I'm guessing, as well as one other poster here, someone has gotten a rough sequence of events from what happened from someone "in the know."
Thanks for the background on your earlier post.