>If you do not believe that a pilot will instinctively react to a weather >induced nose high attitude and erroneous indications of his flight >instruments even in visual flight conditions read the account of the >United Airlines Boeing 737 accident at Colorado Springs. I'll accept that as a possibility for UA 585, and also US 427 ... but not for TW 800, at least not until you can offer a plausible explanation for the explosion of the center fuel tank as a consequence of an "induced pilot reaction." -- Karl Swartz |Home kls@chicago.com |Work kls@netapp.com |WWW http://www.chicago.com/~kls/ Moderator of sci.aeronautics.airliners -- Unix/network work pays the bills