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Re: Atlas flight 3591 crash
« on: February 27, 2019, 03:35:54 pm »
According to the radar trace I saw there was a line of t-storms between them and the airport but they crashed before they got into that so it seems wx wasn't a contributor. I'm still interested in the possibility of load shift. Hard to tell that from this type of wreckage but the FDR might provide a clue with control positions.

Ya but what a strange place for a load shift, no high body angle, no heavy acceleration or deceleration. Normally load shifts happen on takeoff where you have a high nose up body angle and acceleration at the same time. Guess it could have happened on descent though.

The video shows the elevators full nose down but that must be just be part of the program used to make it.
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