Originally Posted by
sandrich
I'm no NTSB investigator, nor a 7000 hour pilot. But given the circumstances of the Colgan crash, it not only was a stall, but a tailplane stall. At least in my opinion.
It wasn't a tailplane stall. It was quite obviously an everyday, regular ol' wing stall. He pulled and added about 3/4 full power, which is a wrong recovery no matter which type you think it is.