Plane Pitches Up Uncontrollably / Air Midwest Flight 5481 Stalls After Takeoff
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The Airplane Nested Up Uncontrollably
The dispatch released for this flight shows that a maximum of 32 bags was allowed on the flight. The weight and balance programe for armid west assumed that all adult passengers weigh a hundred 75 pounds, and a child weighs 80 pounds. Since they have a child instead of an adult, that gives them an extra 95 pounds of wiggle room. So why did the plane n nose up so severely? Just because they can't push down adequately doesn't account for the fact that the plane nosed up, yes, uncontrollably. Then you start to wonder, was there something else going on here that caused the plane to pitch up in the first place, that they then couldn't nose down?
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