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Joyriding Pilots Make Fatal Mistake / Pinnacle Airlines 3701

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Is This a Joy Ride?

The plane departs from little rock at nine 21 p m Central time. About five seconds after takeoff, when the airplane was at an altitude a hundred and 90 feet above the ground, the flight crew moved the control column to eight degrees,. nose up, causing the airplane's pitch angle to increase to 22 degrees. This resulted in a vertical load of one point eight gs and a climb rate of three thousand feet per minute.

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