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Passenger Flight Disappears in Dense Jungle Near Colombian Border

Black Box Down

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The ADI's Disagreement on the Flight Simulator

The pilot who's flying at the time attempted to correct the aircraft's role attitude by applying aileron to level the wings. However, the ADI did not respond and continued to indicate a role of 37 degrees to the left on the longitudinal axis. At that point, they were already so far messed up or so far. I get it. They were trying to operate based on what they're seeing. Since it's sticking, it's not giving them real time information. It's playing catch up every now and then, and they just make the situation worse and worse.

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