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Old October 19th 07, 04:41 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
C J Campbell[_1_]
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Default A Sad Accident

On 2007-10-18 15:48:15 -0700, said:

Preliminary report indicates VFR into IFR and disorientation:

http://www.ktvb.com/news/regional/st...1830b1608.html

Maybe.

But usually these things are flown on autopilot and autopilots do not
become disoriented that way. I will stick with the icing scenario: it
iced up and the autopilot kept spinning the trim to compensate until it
could not compensate any more. Then they stalled, spun and crashed.
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