CNN CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello January 2, 2015 15:39:00
Steve ascent and then the plane stalled, does that make sense to you? >> well it does in some respects. look there are two thing -- there are several things that can cause an aircraft to go up at a very rapid rate of climb. one is pilot-induced, pulling the nose up. although it's very difficult to maintain any high rate of climb at high altitude because the aircraft performance is insufficient to maintain a high rate of cliep. you could get an initial high rate but then it would drop off as the aircraft stalls. the other way is an updraft in the thunderstorm. if there's a very strong updraft, ...
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