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Quoted from dirkdiggler:Our uncle Donny was a commercial pilot with air Canada and retired in the 90s. He was scared shitless of helicopters for some reason. I asked him why and he said because when a chopper goes down it goes straight down and if a plane is going down he can most likely try and find a field, road, etc for a emergency landing. I found it odd but kind of makes sense. Either way a horrible way to go out.
RIP to all the families involved.
An oversimplification that isn't really true..
The plane can only do that if they maintain lift... so they likely lost power, but not aerodynamic control. Helos can 'auto-rotate' and achieve the same thing under similar constraints.
Planes can drop like rocks too..
Quoted from vdojaq:But he did have first hand knowledge with the transcripts and flight data that he got to review. Do you have access to any of that? Didn't think so.
He was just reading the publicly available data.. same as anyone else.
Quoted from vdojaq:I would be very inclined to think he would have more data available to him than the average Joe.
He has experience and training in the subject matter - he was not an insider or privy to unreleased details. He even said it in the OP for those who understand what he was referencing. You can find much more streamlined versions of the same theories in the news articles I linked... from other trained pilots.
The whole 'shut this down' tone and leaping to conclusive conclusions is what rubbed people wrong. Yet some apparently... took it as 'oh, case closed!'
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