Accidents resulting from loss of control or spin have been around since the Wright brothers. In the civilian world, stalls have been and, are still, taught as a maneuver. The area is cleared. The ...

Stall warning systems are a final safeguard, activating when an aircraft approaches its critical angle of attack after other natural aerodynamic warnings may have been missed. The two primary types ...

Initial flight testing explores the characteristics of the airplane as it is initially configured. At this point, the designers have done their best to create a machine that is safe to fly, meets all ...

Power-on stalls are more rapid and intense than power-off stalls, with increased control effectiveness, torque, and P-factor raising the risk of incipient spins, especially problematic at low ...

Sometimes a relatively minor accident brings to light safety issues of broad importance. After the crash of a Cessna Citation in Fargo, North Dakota, the NTSB decided to classify the accident as only ...

On a winter night in February 2009, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed just outside of Buffalo, N.Y., killing all 49 passengers and crew aboard and one person on the ground. An investigation by the ...

Investigators have been left attempting to explain why the crew of Air France flight AF447 failed to recover the Airbus A330 from a high-altitude stall, a predicament which has been the subject of a ...

When an airplane stalls, it’s no longer able to produce lift. When this occurs, there’s an insufficient amount of air traveling under the airplane’s wings to keep it up. As a result, the airplane will ...

The stall resulted in a loss of majority thrust from the right engine, causing the aircraft to roll to the right. An engine compressor stall during a routine touch-and-go flight certification led to a ...