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"Ground shyness" is the term used by Tom Curran, a Federal Aviation Administration safety inspector, to describe the tendency of pilots to pull up in a stall, rather than unloading the airplane and lowering the angle of attack to regain lift. Curran was the first officer in the 1993 crash of a DC-8...

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