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Mr. Luddite

On 12/29/2014 3:20 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 13:40:19 -0600, Califbill
wrote:

Tim wrote:
They're not sure but the searchers are finding oily stuff floating. The
news is saying it's probably on the bottom of the ocean...

The air bus is mostly plastic, so should be a lot of floating debris.

I am sure they will turn up a debris field pretty soon and this is
relatively shallow water so getting the boxes will be easier to do as
soon as we get decent assets in the area.

The more we hear, the more this sounds like a departure stall and an
unrecoverable dive into the sea.
If these 3d world bozos maintained their boxes, they should have the
real answer pretty soon. Politics and the legal issues may determine
when it is actually announced to the public.

Not technically a "departure" stall, but similar if the pilot
was trying to climb at too steep of an angle of attack for speed.

Departure stalls are practiced all the time in flight school and
simulate a take-off with too steep of an angle of attack. Basically
you are trying to stand the airplane on it's tail at full throttle
while balancing it with the rudder. Eventually it stops flying and
drops, usually to one side which, if not corrected, can result in a spin.