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Old 6th Jan 2012, 08:27
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It's clear that the pilot has LTE: But is that really the problem? I would bet good money that the low RRPM horn went off around the time "LTE" started and that the pilot ran out of power, which initially expressed itself as right yaw. The so-called LTE video in Australia is a good example of this, with in-cockpit evidence of how the event sequence developed.

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It is a while since I read the Gazelle accident in Yorkshire, but I can't remember that it was attributed to LTE in any singular and causal sense. The decision to fly given the dangerous wind conditions, together with the pilot's inexperience, were fundamentally what killed Paul and his wife.

In the Rio video, the pilot had surely passed the commital point without realising he was about to crash. LTE caused the aircraft to spin, but what caused the LTE and why did the aircraft crash? There is surely more afoot in this video than LTE.

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