Distracted Crew Enter a Deep Stall / West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 Falls From 33,000 Feet
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Do They Think the Engines Are Just Out?
I don't have the cockpit, the entire cockpit voice recorder in front of me. I believe that the captain a, if they're at ten point eight degrees, nose up, you know, the trim is still trying to nose them up,. and the captain's probably also pulling back on the yoke at this point, trying to get the plane to climb. The last recordings were made at two o'clock in 22 seconds, with the altitude being three thousand 105 feet, and the elevator trim 12 point five degrees. Nose up, the aircraft crashed belly first and exploded, killing everyone on board. So, like we said, it belly flopped. It was nose up. They weren
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