Originally Posted by
Mad (Flt) Scientist
I assume you mean "CRJ" there.
That aircraft did not "come straight down". The crew recovered control but were unable to restart either engine, and came down in houses some distance short of the airport they were trying to glide to. A rather different set of circumstances to what the images so far seem to suggest here.
Yes I do mean CRJ. Yes the circumstances are both dissimilar and similar. Either way the aircraft was out of the envelope. The outcome was the same weather they glided, almost restarted an engine or could not restart. The CRJ may have been able to get the AOA back to a flying angle, the 601 looks like they didn't. Neither had a mid-air, loss of pressurization (initially and root cause) or in-flight fire. Both had if you will "controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) which technically means there was nothing "wrong" with the aircraft. Your point is valid but really the cause and effect are the same at this very early view.