"Matthew Chidester" wrote in message
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Also he was close on the operation limits and if he was heavy (overloaded)
he could have easily gone in a stall/spin including heavy turbulence

Why? He was (as has been pointed out in other posts in this thread) almost 3
miles AGL. If he was losing airspeed, point the nose down. Why would he
stall? I've been in a lot of turbulence (I live on the Colorado Front Range)
and it has never caused the airplane to come close to stall speed.

Michael