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No. Commercial airlines generally don't fly in the coffin corner. That's just asking for trouble.

AF447 had nothing to do with the coffin corner - that accident was caused by the aircraft flying through icing conditions, the speed-sensing equipment icing over, the computer detecting that and switching the autopilot off and handing control over to the pilots, who then flew the aircraft into a stall and couldn't work out what they were doing wrong.




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