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Old 5th Mar 2009, 08:59
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Originally Posted by diddy1234
If the western countries were sharing information like this for reasons of safety then why were there never deep stall issues with the Russian Ilyushin Il-62 ?
The Russians did unfortunately experience a deep stall with a Pulkovo Airlines Tu154 only a couple of years ago, over Ukraine, trying to climb up over a thunderstorm in the cruise. Classic deep stall result, coming down to the ground in an uncontrollable wings-level attitude. It's basic physics.

Meanwhile the UK experiences led to a requirement to fit stick pushers on T-tail aircraft, but the 727 was never so fitted so I wonder how much of the "sharing safety" atually happened. When the first UK-registered 727s came secondhand to Dan-Air, many years after their introduction, they had to be expensively modified to fit such a device.
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