Pilots Crash Doing a Go Around / USAir Flight 1016 Crashes in a Neighborhood
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The Ear Juice Is Not Reliable
If you look up, the fluid in your inner ear moves back. It's like tilting the glass. The same thing can happen if you're in a car or in a plane and you start accelerating very quickly. So what the nt s b is saying here is that maybe, because they started accelerating, the captain thought that they were pitching up too far,. But in reality, they weren't pitched up too far. They wer pitching up the appropriate amount. Here's e ear juice y. We are made for being on the ground at relatively slow speeds. That kind of rapid acceleration doesn't make sense to our inner ear. We don't know to perceive it.
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