WAKE THEORY REBUTTED
You advanced a theory that as American Airlines Flight 587 climbed into the preceding wake of a Boeing 747, which was 5 mi. ahead of it, Flight 587's vertical stabilizer intersected the bottom of the vortices, first causing a yawing moment in one direction followed quickly by a yaw in the opposite...
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