Cause & Circumstance: Accelerated Stall At Low Altitude Ends In Crash

ntsb flightpath

The accident aircraft flightpath.

Credit: NTSB
An accelerated stall is one in which the G-load on the airplane is greater than +1G. One place an accelerated stall commonly occurs is in an overbanked turn to final approach. Excessive banking has been a factor in many approach-to-landing accidents, including three between 2017-21 involving...
Roger Cox

A former military, corporate and airline pilot, Roger Cox was also a senior investigator at the NTSB. He writes about aviation safety issues.

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