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To: Robe

No...it was done in the Alaska MD-80 crash AS261 when the jackscrew failed. Capt was an exNavy F-14 pilot. The horizontal stabilizer eventually departed the aircraft and the plane crashed into the ocean off Santa Barbara. But it did buy some time.

What Denzel W did in the movie was not in the relm of possibility.


58 posted on 03/15/2019 2:11:05 PM PDT by downtownconservative
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To: downtownconservative

But it didn’t work.. did it or there wouldn’t be a hole in the ground...or ocean, not trying to be pi$$yy but civil aircraft aren’t built for the stresses aerobatics place on airplanes, demonstrated by the failure of the control surfaces in your example


59 posted on 03/15/2019 2:21:09 PM PDT by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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