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Originally Posted by candyflip
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"You have to wonder if Continental 3407 was flying on autopilot - carrying enough ice on its wings that its normal approach speed was simply too slow for it to stay in the air. So when it slowed down, it simply dropped out of the sky."
This is what a lot of people are speculating. I don't know a lot about how pilots think but one would assume with the conditions the way they were auto pilot wouldn't have been used. They should be able to tell that from the data recorders though. They are on the way to Washington now.