HazelNuts39
"Was he trying to maintain 15 degrees NU?"
Fair question. I have another.
Was he trying to desperately keep the a/c tracking on a heading whilst keeping the wings level?
Your question has no basis in evidence. Mine does. The a/c has a demonstrable problem with YAW. What a/c behaviour might he have been trying to alleviate? A tendency to drop a wing? Slew to the right? Lose herself completely? Was the mush the only attitude the a/c could maintain and stay "airborne"? Did she have a desire to "lose it" with a ND?
Back to airloads. Her ROD touched 15thousand fpm. That is of course in addition to her forward progress. One hundred thirty knots down, plus forward, ~150? All her controls are working to put the mayonnaise in a carton, what were their loads? It is not pansy to entertain that this bird lost some feathers.
mach. "His Pitch problems started when the wings started rocking" qed. Were they "His" problems? Did they have possibly another genesis? BTW, the "Wings started to wobble" in autoflight, not after.
Last edited by Lyman; 11th Mar 2012 at 20:25.