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Old 13th Jan 2016, 15:06
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BRDuBois
 
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I took down the latest version after doing some more thinking. My turn computations were too simplistic, and they don't have the explanatory value I first thought they did.

So I'm still stuck with an intractable problem. Everything from the right wing hit on through the sequence looks like a belly landing. I can't show good evidence that the high-angle bank was wrong, but it's incompatible with the rest of the sequence. I can show that a low-angle bank is reasonable, but can't give any hard evidence for it. If the plane came down with a high-angle bank, I have no clue how it could have transitioned to the belly landing.

More work to do.
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