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What NTSB Reports Say About Impossible Turns and Angle of Attack

Air Facts

An incomplete summary description of FASF is whether the airplane made it out of ground effect. I could see that the spot on the ground in the windshield that was not moving was short of the runway. Optimum” glide was not the issue here, and a visual AOA indicator would have had no value.