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So many factors that could be blamed in this story. As in every other aircraft accident. But EVERY plane will stall. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN 'UNSTALLABLE'

So many factors that could be blamed in this story. As in every other aircraft accident. But EVERY plane will stall. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN 'UNSTALLABLE' PLANE. I once overloaded a plane inadvertently, by having a heavy load plus a full weight of fuel. At the point of lift-off, the stall-warning started screaming at me as I started to go into the climb. Training kicked in and I pushed the nose down to maintain flying speed. Practically no climb at all possible though. I did a very quick and low circuit, landed and offloaded. Funny how those little tense moments stay with you for ever. :)

Dylan16807 2y ago
EVERY? Is a plane with a thrust-to-weight ratio over 1 able to stall at full throttle?
- vdqtp3 2y ago
  Yes
- simonblack 2y ago
  A stall is a loss of lift from an aerofoil due to a high Angle of Attack causing a separation of the airflow from the aerofoil. No laminar flow = no lift. There is such an animal as a high-speed stall, where the angle of attack is greater than 15 degrees. Can happen when a gung-ho pilot makes a high speed dive over his girl-friends house and leaves it too late and too low to pull out gently. ('Gently' being a pull back on the controls such that the Angle of Attack is less than 15 degrees, and curves enough to pull smoothly out of the dive, go into a climb and away to safety.) He pulls back too hard on the controls. The angle of attack goes over 15 degrees, there is no 'lift' to stop the dive, and the plane continues the trajectory straight into the girl-friend's house. Whether that has ever actually happened, I do not know. But that was the warning not to be a smart-arse as told to me by my CFI.