<story><title>Designed to Crash: the story of Antonov An-28 HA-LAJ and its demise</title><url>https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/designed-to-crash-the-bizarre-story-of-antonov-an-28-ha-laj-and-its-demise-169b3720d924</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gorgoiler</author><text>I once flew from Weston-on-the-Green as a guest on a sky diving flight, a couple of years after this accident.  We went right up to 12,000 feet which I was told was the natural ceiling for this sort of activity.&lt;p&gt;It amazed me that everyone on board could think straight at that altitude — it really affected me dropping to two thirds atmospheric pressure so suddenly.  As I recall we didn’t spend long at altitude: the aircraft and the sky divers went pretty much straight up then straight down again with surprisingly little difference in time spent in the air between them and us.  You’d want to have your wits about you anyway when jumping out of a plane, let alone one where the landing site is next to two busy roads (the newly built M40 near the Oxford&amp;#x2F;Bicester A34 junction.)&lt;p&gt;(And yes, if you’d told me in the early 90s that you were going to take a flight in a second hand soviet turboprop I’d say take a parachute because you must have a screw loose.  Turns out both were the case.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Designed to Crash: the story of Antonov An-28 HA-LAJ and its demise</title><url>https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/designed-to-crash-the-bizarre-story-of-antonov-an-28-ha-laj-and-its-demise-169b3720d924</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>knodi123</author><text>Spoiler for people who don&amp;#x27;t want to read a VERY long article- the electrical circuits in the plane did not follow the plans. A screw that was providing grounding (to the plane body) for the flap system had wiggled loose- causing the electricity to take a different path, through the a circuit that controlled the angle of the propellors.  So pressing the flap button cause the propellor to stop spinning.</text></comment>