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Old 16th Feb 2011, 07:00
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The report says: In an alpine flight, the aircraft struck a ridge violently
mountain on which it stops thereafter.


There would always be a fuel leak anyway - every plane like this will have a few gallons of unusable fuel.

I am no spin specialist but I gather a flat spin results in a relatively low VS. I have read one aero champion saying a flat spin is a reasonable way to descend through cloud if caught above an overcast... In this case the VS was very high.

Twins are not required to be able to recover from a spin, AFAIK. But I don't think this was a spin.

It almost makes sense that the pilot may have been doing some "amateur aeros" and in a descent into the valley he misjudged it and hit that rock. That would account for it - except for the evidently zero forward speed. In flight, there is no way to translate say 150kt into a VS of say 100-150kt and zero forward speed.
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