This is for the experts.
Like the Alaska Airlines tragedy the rear flap was locked into a dive scenario so why did it glide and not just go nose down when they un-inverted themselves?
Because they slowed down enough?
Probably just movie magic, but if I had to venture a guess when they inverted it freed up the jammed stabilizer allowing it to move to a neutral position. When they righted the plane the stabilizer didn't revert to nose-down attitude.
I also wondered the same thing while watching the film and the above is my best guess other than it wouldn't happen in reality.
Yeah movie magic indeed. I like your guess, could have dislodged something upside down.
Still a great film.
Yeah, I didn't worry about it at the time because I expected it to be a story about a plane crash and the subsequent investigation(with his drug/drinking problem being a factor) and the details like that would be explained. A la the book "Airframe" by Michael Crichton.
Instead, it turned out to be more of a character study on this broken addicted pilot and his struggle with admitting the truth to himself and the world.
It left the above stabilizer question unresolved, but I didn't let that bother me. It wasn't that type of story.
Still a great film, indeed.
"Airframe" was a good book.
Kelsey from the YT channel "74 Gear" did an analysis of the crash sequence and pointed out several errors, I don't remember if this was one of them.
Airframe is a great book, at least for people like me who love air crash investigations.
I saw that video when it was released and I do not recall him mentioning this specific observation/question, and I recall it annoying me greatly.
Just rewatched the movie and have a question.
When The Pilot tells the flight attendant to say something for her son to hear. so that the black box will pick it up, does that violate the sterile cockpit rule, or would the FAA cut them a break for that one?
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LoL!
What is going on here? Did you suffer a stroke?