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Originally Posted by Geneman
Someone in the comments to the YouTube video noticed loss of aileron:
Michael Neuharth
18 hours ago
If you pause the film at 42 seconds you can see the aileron leaving the right wing. Which would explain why he couldn't roll right to maintain level flight. Having broken ailerons would cause very abrupt control inputs at race speeds. I've screenshotted the video play by play and from 41 to 42 seconds you can see the aileron disintegrating and leaving the air craft.
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I wondered about this initially as it looked like he could not roll right.. but the l29 has stout pushrod control actuation, so, even if he lost an aileron the lift generated by the left wing and a downward deflected left aileron would have rolled the plane upright....
Still the simplest answer is usually the correct one... G induced loss of consciousness.