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Distracted Crew Enter a Deep Stall / West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 Falls From 33,000 Feet

Black Box Down

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Is the Captain Pulling Back?

The descent rate was approaching five thousand feet per minute at this point. The captain is kind of like shutting down tit's, i know, it seems like it makes sense rilock. But in the moment, you know, if someone's scared, are not thinking clearly, they're like, oh, we need to climb. We're too low. And they're just pulling back, even though that's the wrong thing to do. There's also a speculation that they probably got hit by an up draft, and that's what started this.

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