Loose rivits:
Turning? Not a chance. When I GooEarth the eastern end of the Inn valley, it looks huge, but turning in it with a full load of pax is a very different story.
I wrote this in a style appropriate for Jet Blast, but I promise you, it was a very accurate description of events on that day.
I remember one of my old skippers - wartime experience and all that - saying if he was confronted with a vertical wall of granite, he soar. "what else could you do?"
One may well ask, though an aircraft with proper controls might well be rolled off the top of a loop, but try persuading a computer that it's a good idea.
LOWI is tame these days for those with the equipment and training: