That was a 747.
man that is painful to watch. You know the minute it stalls that it’s all over, just waiting for the end. The crew must have know it, too.
Richard Pearse found the culprit. It didn’t occur to me that they were flying with the night goggles and couldn’t see the case with them. That makes more sense.
It doesn’t have to completely overcome the problem to help mitigate it until they regain control. In a full elevator up situation you can bank the airplane to bring the nose down.
Um, that’s called starting a spin. They’re not good. Especially close to the ground.
This is why you shouldn’t steam punk cosplay and pilot at the same time. Dang goggles.
They did do that. What I mean is that in some trim systems moving the trim is completely ineffective in countering a jammed elevator.
It was used successfully by a DC8 crew when their plane went full up elevator due to a mechanical. They lost the plane on landing because it was dark and they set it down in a bad spot but the maneuver worked. The alternative is to continue to climb into a stall.