CHINA AIR 747SP
Its too bad that China Air a few years back had a 747SP coming to the US and the flight crew did not realize that although the auto-pilot was on the altitude hold on the modular control panel some how released and before the crew could catch it the aircraft stalled and ended up going into a dive. The flight crew eventually saved the aircraft from its dive by extending gear and flaps at speeds much higher than the maximum allowed and after the aircraft landed it was discovered that the aircraft had major hual damage...I believe the horizontal stablizers were bent off center to the fuselage.
I believe that the aircraft was not repairable however I couldn't swear on the fact.
A pity because even though the 747SP was a shortened version of the 747-200 it did serve a very useful purpose in that its nitch was for a minimum capacity but long haul market and indeed did serve in this capacity very well.
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