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Old 28th Dec 2007, 03:34
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While there are undoubted design similarities between the CL-604 and the CRJ-100/200 (the former being the subject of the accident to which this thread relates, the latter being the Fredericton aircraft), with the two types sharing a common type certificate and a common ancestor (the CL-601) there are of course also some important differences, so one must be careful in attempting to draw conclusions which apply to both variants.

Additionally, Frederiction was a landing accident, with the aircraft essentially in the landing configuration at the time of the stall (the call had been made for flaps, per the TSB report, but would hardly have had time to move from the flaps 45 position). Almaty is by all accounts a takeoff accident, which means flaps 20 for the CL-604. So the graph in the TSB report can only be of fairly general use.
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