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Old 2nd January 2001 | 01:39
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twistedenginestarter
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Air conditioned.

The Trident sufferred a superstall loss during development. The BEA GARPI incident at Staines was as you say caused by the stall prevention system being over-ridden. It didn't recover three times from a stall. It three times went into stall prevention mode which would have saved the plane if only they'd have let the computers do the flying. Once the system was dumped it immediately went into a stall. Just the one was enough.

In this style of plane if you stall you are dead. You can't recover. Well maybe from 50000 feet if you are lucky.

Reverser deployed

A parachute on your body is not much use but I think they normally put one on the tail to pull it back up once it has gone into a stall - for development only of course.