Frangible, the WSJ article states the events happened in a different sequence from what I understand, but I'm not saying my understanding is correct. Their story is also asking me to believe that two professional pilots not only made one dumb mistake, but made two in very quick sequence (letting the airspeed decay to a stall during a configuration change, and then pulling BACK on the yoke to recover from it). They'd have to be idiots to do that, and I find that very hard to believe (at least for now).
SE210, not very likely I admit. However I don't know what ice on the bottom of the wing (past the boots, possibly acquired during the lower airspeed at a higher AOA) does to the aerodynamics.
grebllaw123d, the NTSB has stated they are not fully confident in that number yet, so they might have been flying at a somewhat higher airspeed, but who knows at this point.
Last edited by Flight Safety; 18th Feb 2009 at 20:58.