UPS Airlines Flight 62

Introduction
UPS Airlines Flight 62 was a flight from Louisville, the airlines hub, to Osaka. The plane suffered an aerodynamic stall after a problem in the elevators pushed the plane 90° upward, and the plane hit a mountain.

Pilots
Captain Rohan Wanke and First Officer Hugo Johnson made the lucky escape, and they became famous for their near-death experience.

The Crash
Flight 62 began normal, as any other flight would. The flight had finished it's course over the Pacific Ocean, and was getting closer to Japan. The flight's destination, Osaka, was close, and the pilots began to descend. They push the controls downward, but the elevators, which control pitch, do the opposite. The elevators go as high as they are built to, resulting in the plane's pitch lifting up rapidly. Captain Wanke, attempting to push the nose back down, pushes his engines to full power, and tries as hard as he can to get the nose down. The flight is losing speed rapidly, and if he doesn't get the nose down the plane will enter a stall. And that's exactly what happened.

The plane, now in a stall, is falling vertically upward, and no amount of force seems to be able to stop it. Below the flight is the coastline of Japan, which will soon be impacted by the falling plane. But when all hope seems lost, a tiny hope arises. The plane's nose is now lowering, and the Captain is managing to get his plane under control. But the plane is too close to the ground. Now falling from 5,000 ft, the plane is almost unrecoverable. The last words on the cockpit voice recorder are then uttered, those being First Officer Johnson's words 'Goodbye, world'. The plane then impacts the ground, but not in the way you'd expect. They hit a hill at it's peak, meaning part of the plane would then move down the slope at the other end. This part of the plane was the cockpit. The cockpit, now sliced off the wreckage, sped down the hill, before coming to a stop at the bottom. Both pilots survived the impact, and neither pilot were seriously injured.

Cause
It was later found that a screw had come loose in the spoiler system, and the maintenance team failed to recognise the issue. An inspection was then done on all 53 A300s that UPS Airlines owned, as well as all 66 that FedEx Express owned. 7 aircraft (4 on UPS, 3 on FedEx) were found to have the same fault as the spoiler in the accident.

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