bl@hplabsb.UUCP (03/06/85)
Here's a bit of gossip from a friend of a friend of ... a mechanic who knows ... the inpector. The airliner is on autopilot and the crew is flying with brains disengaged. Power is lost on one of the outer engines. The obedient autopilot maintains altitude by raising the nose. Air speed drops, plane stalls. The asymmetric thrust rolls it into a spin. Plane drops, goes transonic in the dive. The plane reaches denser air and the autopilot pulls it out if the dive at 9500 feet. During the pull out, the G force drops the gear and the doors fly off and hit the tail. After the pull out, the crew finally gets their act together and disengages the autopilot.