Airplane Crashes Upside Down on Runway / Propair Flight 420 Loses a Wing
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The Fire in the Left Wing Caused the Flight to Fail 25 S Ground
Most likely the front connection failed, the wing started flipping up, twisting the rear spar and caused it to fail. And that's why that left wing snapped off. Because the left wing was gone, they'd then get a symmetrical lift, because the right wing is still providing lift. That's why it went up. The airplane rolled and rotated to the left. This rotation released the left landing gear pivot pin, allowing the landing gear to fall on to the runway, gouging the runway surface. It bated just through the landing gear cleard. Then the aircraft struck the runway on its left side, anslid for two thousand 500 feet.
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