Stalls are a normal part of flight, occurring when an airfoil's angle of attack exceeds a critical point, and pilots must understand the three basic types: power-off, power-on, and accelerated.

Accidents resulting from loss of control or spin have been around since the Wright brothers. In the civilian world, stalls have been and, are still, taught as a maneuver. The area is cleared. The ...

In Part 2, we discussed Learjet’s research into improving the stall characteristics of its aircraft. Bombardier’s Clinton E. Tanner, senior technical advisor of flight sciences, points out that ...

Stalls during takeoff are extremely dangerous and often unrecoverable due to the aircraft's vulnerable low-altitude, high-drag state. Common contributing factors ...

No conclusions can be reached at this point on what brought down AirAsia Flight 8501, but with information coming from Indonesian transportation officials that the stall warning horn could be heard ...

Although many fixed-wing aircraft can withstand similar rapid pitch-up maneuvers, a vehicle subject to this dynamic stall process is not reliably controllable. Motivated by the lack of detailed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the airline industry and aviation safety. May 05, 2013, 09:00am EDT May 05, 2013, 09:20am EDT This article is more ...