Re:No Survivors in Crash of Flight Carrying Polish Leader
by jwr on Saturday April 10, 2010 @09:27AM
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I'm sorry, but you seem to know little about avionics. There are no 'tree detectors'.
No sane pilot would try a turn at this altitude, and the pilot knew very well what the altitude was because he had just aborted a landing attempt. It wasn't a turn, it was likely a stall.
I could be wrong, but the pilot had already tried several times to land, and he was flying manually, and probably a good pilot, and there may have been a freak tree in terms of height, but I reckon he just didn't have modern enough instruments to help him avoid the crash.