soon to be student wrote:

... make it and the plane crashed at a 60 degree nose down attitude.

The article says that the slope of the hillside is a 50 to 60 degree angle, and
the plane came to rest with the nose pointed downhill. That's a *lot* different
from crashing at a 60 degree nose-down angle.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.