Originally posted by landing-gear
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What I'm saying is just that, typically, and not in this specific case, planes in a dare emergency that are controllable and that the pilot has control crash land somehow in-control in some way or another, with better or worse results, they don't dive into the ground. O the other hand, if the plane is uncontrollable, no matter how good the pilot or how heroic he might be, typically he will not be able to steer the plane to where he wishes, because you need control to steer.
In this particular case, and now I' speculating based on the little news report linked in this thread:
- There was a mid-air crash.
- There are witnesses reports saying that the plane rolled inverted.
- There are witnesses reports saying that "the back of the plane popped" (whatever that means).
- The wreckage seemed to be concentrated in one spot, what would indicate a high vertical speed and little forward speed.
This sounds consistent with a plane with structural failure that becomes uncontrollable and crashes out of control. If that's the case, then even Sully, or even Bob Hoover, could have not done a thing to steer the plane away from the houses or wherever they'd wished.
No disrespect intended, implied or stated in there.
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