| 1. | The nose drops and speed increases : the spiral dive has begun.
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| 2. | If a spiral dive is entered unintentionally, the result can be fatal.
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| 3. | A spiral dive is not a type of spin because neither wing is stalled.
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| 4. | Kenny was more restrained about his feat, executing stalls, spins and spiral dives to get his license to fly solo.
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| 5. | The 767 stalled in mid-air and entered a spiral dive to the left, disintegrating at 4, 000 feet ( 1, 200 meters ).
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| 6. | A spiral dive is not a spin; it starts, not with a stall or from torque but with a random, increasing roll and airspeed.
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| 7. | On the last one, on September 26, the Flying Bomb climbed straight for about a hundred yards, then entered a spiral dive and crashed.
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| 8. | A few minutes after take off the DC-8 entered a spiral dive to the left shortly after sending two short messages to Air Traffic Control.
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| 9. | The port engine caught fire and Smirnov was wounded in his arms and hip, but managed to put the aircraft into a steep spiral dive.
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| 10. | A spin differs from a spiral dive in which neither wing is stalled and which is characterized by a low angle of attack and high airspeed.
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