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What Is a Flat Spin?

Pilot Institute

The initial rotation that initiates a spin may result from other factors, such as incorrect control inputs or turbulence. The problem is that the airflow from the propeller goes over the horizontal stabilizer, which produces a downward force (and causes the nose to pitch up).

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What Is a Dutch Roll, and Is It Dangerous?

Pilot Institute

The trigger can be any external force such as a wind gust or turbulence. To understand the aircraft’s response to a disturbance, you need to understand aerodynamic stability. Placing the center of gravity ahead of the aircraft’s center of lift improves longitudinal stability. How Does a Dutch Roll Begin?

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Power-on Stall: How to Recover

Pilot Institute

The turbulent air hits the horizontal stabilizer, which causes a vibration that can be felt throughout the aircraft. You should always test the stall warning system on the ground to ensure it works. Buffeting Buffeting occurs when the boundary layer begins to separate from the wing surface.

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Incidents and accidents: AeroTime’s commercial airline safety roundup of 2024  

Aerotime

Additionally, only those events where aircraft have been reported as either substantially damaged or written off, or there has been a fatality onboard a public transport flight due to inflight turbulence, have been included. The left winglet of one of the aircraft collided with the right horizontal stabilizer and elevator of the other.

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Unusual Queens: Top 10 coolest special mission Boeing 747s

Aerotime

NASA used the aircraft for wake turbulence studies, but in 1977, it was converted to its Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) configuration and began its important job of ferrying the Enterprise orbiter. As it was exposed to turbulent winds and vibrations, it was mounted in bearings in pressurized oil to steady the view.

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Pilot Errors, Not Turbulence, Caused Fatal Upset

AV Web

In a final report that seems scripted to prove the old adage about aircraft accidents resulting from a series of seemingly minor mishaps, the NTSB has determined that pilot actions, not turbulence and later a trim issue, as was widely reported at the time, caused an upset that led to the death of a passenger on a Challenger 300 in 2023.