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Stick Shaker at 14 Feet: How a Faulty Sensor Burned a TriStar
Stick Shaker at 14 Feet: How a Faulty Sensor Burned a TriStar
The moment the stick shaker screamed at fourteen feet, a 20‑year‑old TriStar had already left the runway at 181 knots and then come back - and two hundred and eighty people walked away from a burning wreck. How could an intermittent angle-of-attack sensor, flagged unserviceable nine times and cycled through a parts pool, create a false stall warning that almost killed everyone on board?
In this episode, we tell the story of TWA Flight 843 and the chain of events from pushback to crash, following the crew actions, aircraft history…
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