After the Chinese fighter struck the Navy plane, causing the U . S . plane to shake violently and snap-roll to the left at about a 140-degree angle of bank, the aircraft commander, Lt . Shane Osborn, gave the order for the crew to prepare to bail out.
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A variation of the slow roll is the " hesitation roll, " in which the pilot stops the roll at various " points " during the maneuver, maintaining a level flightpath at whatever angle of bank for a short time, such as 90 degrees ( wings-vertical ), 135 degrees ( partly inverted ) or 180 degrees ( fully inverted ).
