The resulting cross-control stall will be too close to the ground to recover. When distractions raise heads, airmanship is the skill we use to prevent a stall and the possibility of a subsequent spin.

If the cross-control stall recovery had not been mastered, the pilot instinctively pulls farther back. The rollover continues. Once the wing has gone beyond 90 deg. in the traffic pattern, ...

He also could have created a cross-control stall. That would require a bank, or turn, in one direction and a rudder applied in the other. Kennedy had a leg injury that may have prevented him from ...

Yaw control is usually not affected by a stall. Some airplanes can be stalled for a very long time, while in others the nose will fall through, and if the pilot keeps the elevator positioned full ...