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Plane Pitches Up Uncontrollably / Air Midwest Flight 5481 Stalls After Takeoff

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How Did They Figure This Out?

Pitch control positions were about nine degrees more nose down than the actual elevator positions. So when they got the data back, it looked like the plane wasn't doing all the crazy stuff. But then, i guess there's probably a video of this, right? Because it's hat an airport, i don't know if there's any video of it. It was also two thousand three. You have about 30 minutes to talk about tis.

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