Author Topic: Atlas flight 3591 crash  (Read 597 times)

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Offline Omni

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Re: Atlas flight 3591 crash
« on: February 27, 2019, 03:49:22 pm »
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.

My little attempt at speculation would have the fwd portion of the load not properly secured, so on takeoff it would be held in place by pallets aft that were secured. Then a combination of nose down deck angle/deceleration starts a slow slide fwd during the step down approach that the radar shows, finally resulting in steep nose down attitude/high ROD. Just a guess at this point, and hopefully they get the "boxes" so whatever happened can be revealed.