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Old 27th May 2011, 21:29
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  • China Airlines Airbus Industrie A300B4-622R, Nagoya Airport April 26, 1994
  • Bournemouth Airport, U.K. - A Thomsonfly (now known as Thomson Airways) Boeing 737-300 with 132 passengers on a flight from Faro in Portugal to Bournemouth in England, September 2007
  • An Air New Zealand Airbus A320-200, registration D-AXLA (ZK-OJL), test flight GXL888T from Perpignan (France), Nov 2008
  • Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, February 2009

etc etc All aircraft which crashed (or very nearly so) because the pilots failed to realise that the trim had been set full nose up, and couldn't understand why they lost pitch control.

Generally airline stall recovery training doesn't use or show a set up with the trim set this way - it is usually an artificial "OK, we are going to stall ... disengage the autopilot and slow the aircraft down, and stop trimming to allow for the recovery..."
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