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Air Moorea 1121 / A Seven Minute Flight Ends in Tragedy

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How Long Was It From the Dive to the Impact?

The pilot was not trained or prepared for either during his training or during type rating, as indeed most pilots are. Only a reflex action could thus have allowed him to recover the airplane before impact. So only if, as a reflex he had started trimming immediately, ah, he could have prevented the crash. But man, that's, that's a tall order, ye. I mean, you're doing this flight over and over, and all sudden something like that happens. It's like you're not, you have reflected, you have no reflexes for that, right? And that you've already wasted too much. When not wasting o'vealready spent too much time, more

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