Originally Posted by
bvcu
any other cases of a swept wing jet transport of that size or bigger recovering from a spin ? Useful info for them i guess !
I could be completely wrong about this, but somehow I doubt the aircraft entered an actual spin. More likely a deep stall which can be hard to recover from in a T-tail aircraft. That's why the C-17 got fly-by-wire. The original design was not fly-by-wire, but FBW became necessary to provide positive stall protection over the full flight envelope. A stick pusher was not considered sufficient.