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Old 6th Oct 2010, 20:59
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Alber Ratman
 
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You will really have to find a copy of the accident report for all the details and for a verifable source of citation. However this will give you a clueon what you are looking for on the areodynamics of the accident.

1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B-52 crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As said before, the captain put the aircraft into a stall by exceeding the limits that the aircraft could maintain that turn without stalling at that IAS. His high angle of bank and high AoA meant that the LH wing stalled first and the loss of lift would produce an continued roll to port and the nose to pitch down. Only increasing airspeed and having the height to carry out recovery action would have given him the chance to save the aircraft. He had neither the time to increase speed or height to carry out any recovery action.

Have fun with your research.
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