Joyriding Pilots Make Fatal Mistake / Pinnacle Airlines 3701
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Aircraft Accident Investigation - Is This a Missed Opportunity?
"There's a lot that has gone wrong here. I can't overstate what a missed opportunity it was," he said. "If they had just acknowledged that they couldn't re start their engines, there were six different runways,. six different airports, that were within range of where they could have landed at." The NTSB determined the climb and the aggressive pitch up and yab movements were done for a reasons. They wanted to hit the airplane up to the service ceiling - which is an unofficial thing pilots call 'the forty one thousand club'
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