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All,
We are now talking about flat spins in chimpmunks, (sic), Pitts, etc. What a concept and I truly believe this has absolutely no bearing on this accident investigation. Why not go to inverted flat spins and carry this out to an additional ridiculous tangent? Spin/flat spin/inverted flat spin in an A330?
There are many posts on this thread. Some good and some bad. Many are intriguing and cause thought and research. It is extremely hard for me to believe that the aircraft broke up inflight unless it suffered the loss of a primary flight control or flight control supporting structure. If the VS did leave the airframe due to ultimate load limit being exceded, then other factors must have been contributing. If the crew in this tragedy experienced an overspeed past MMO/VMO, or slowed intentionally or unintentionally to below buffet boundry 1.5/1.3 this could be a contributing cause.
228 people lost their lives and this is not about conspiricy, national pride, Boeing vs Airbus or any other insignificant arguement. The investigation will determine the cause and hopefully direct the modification and or re-design of operational parameters for the airframe. This has been sucessfully accomplished after the accidents of most, if not all modern aircraft.
Over