This is for the experts.
Like the Alaska Airlines tragedy the rear flap was locked into a dive scenario so why did it glide and not just go nose down when they un-inverted themselves?
Because they slowed down enough?
Probably just movie magic, but if I had to venture a guess when they inverted it freed up the jammed stabilizer allowing it to move to a neutral position. When they righted the plane the stabilizer didn't revert to nose-down attitude.
I also wondered the same thing while watching the film and the above is my best guess other than it wouldn't happen in reality.
Yeah movie magic indeed. I like your guess, could have dislodged something upside down.
Still a great film.
Yeah, I didn't worry about it at the time because I expected it to be a story about a plane crash and the subsequent investigation(with his drug/drinking problem being a factor) and the details like that would be explained. A la the book "Airframe" by Michael Crichton.
Instead, it turned out to be more of a character study on this broken addicted pilot and his struggle with admitting the truth to himself and the world.
It left the above stabilizer question unresolved, but I didn't let that bother me. It wasn't that type of story.
Still a great film, indeed.
"Airframe" was a good book.
Kelsey from the YT channel "74 Gear" did an analysis of the crash sequence and pointed out several errors, I don't remember if this was one of them.
Airframe is a great book, at least for people like me who love air crash investigations.
I saw that video when it was released and I do not recall him mentioning this specific observation/question, and I recall it annoying me greatly.
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LoL!
What is going on here? Did you suffer a stroke?