A 24,000-foot-per-minute descent rate doesn’t leave much margin for recovery in any fixed-wing aircraft. In the case of the ...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Friday released the preliminary report on the crash of the Hawker 800XP ...
The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report on the October plane crash in Bath Township that ...
The flight crew of a plane that crashed near Lansing in October had decided to perform a post-maintenance test themselves ...
Three people died when a Raytheon Hawker 800XP crashed during a post-maintenance stall test flight in Michigan on 16 October, ...
The pilots in a deadly business jet crash in Michigan were performing a test flight themselves, following repairs, instead of waiting for a test pilot, when the aircraft plunged into woods near ...
Tailplane stalls (ICTS) are a distinct and violent type of stall occurring in icing conditions, primarily affecting twin-turboprop aircraft, and require a recovery method (pulling back on controls) ...
Credit: NASA I wrote on the topic of ice-contaminated tailplane stall a while back and apparently did not understand the problem. It is now years later and I still feel the same as I did then. I ...