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  • AlexisLexYeen@plush.city
    Nov 2, 2026, 5:23 AM

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    Okay. For anyone who isn't familiar with aircraft? The vertical stabilizer is what lets the pilot control how the nose of the plane goes up and down. The horizontal stabilizer controls side to side motion in a similar manner.

    And the mention of Alaska Airlines Flight 261? Similar terminal flight path, caused by the vertical stabilizer departing the aircraft.

    Once again, here's to the NTSB investigators figuring this shit out, 'cause *fuckin' hell.*

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  • AlexisLexYeen@plush.city
    Nov 2, 2026, 5:26 AM

    @dragonarchitect Look, I'm a layperson and every example image I could find in 30sec had the vertically-oriented one marked as horizontal stabilizer and the horizontally-oriented one marked as vertical stabilizer, and that made sense in my head.

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  • AlexisLexYeen@plush.city
    Nov 2, 2026, 7:03 PM

    @dragonarchitect It wasn't that. It was my own shit brain getting it fucking wrong, then having a cPTSD flare thanks to having been repeatedly e-jumped for similarly simple mistakes in the past.

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