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mn9driver

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Wed May-13-09 03:08 PM
Response to Reply #11

14. Negative.

Flap extension lowers the stall speed of the wing. It's possible that she thought the tail had stalled due to ice, in which case retracting the flaps might be the right thing to do, but this was a wing stall and retracting the flaps may very well have made the problem worse.

The captain's frantic and incorrect recovery attempts were what doomed them, though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxywEE1kK6I

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