Originally Posted by pei
The Colgan accident was associated with wing stall in icing conditions, but misidentified as tail stall
I don't wish to wander into a 'Colgan relived' thread, but the findings are different, and so as not to confuse lalitya
Originally Posted by NTSB
It is unlikely that the captain was deliberately attempting to perform a tailplane stall recovery.
No evidence indicated that the Q400 was susceptible to a tailplane stall.
- does this not say the actions were nothing to do with perceived 'tail stall' or are we disputing the NTSB findings (2.2.3.1) which also deduced that there was probably no 'wing icing' present (last para 2.2.1)?
The Captain lost awareness of excessive speed decay and just pulled back at the stall warning, historically a well-documented error.