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221 Pilatus PC-12 Crashes in Ocean by North Carolina Killing 8 People + GA News

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Is the Pedo Tube Frozen Over?

Air speed almost immediately dropped to a hundred and three knots, which makes me think he didn't add power. So i would say there's a very remote possibility that maybe the pedo tube had frozen over or they had some problem with the peto static system. And if you went into the cloud suddenly by surprise and weren't prepared, were distracted by lots of things going on, it's pretty easy to see how one might lose control of a very high performance, very slick aircraft.

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