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Why do airplanes stall at times?

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The term "stall" describes an airplane that can't produce enough lift to stay in the air. Usually, this means the airplane will descend rapidly and will gain airspeed and lift; thus it will recover from the stall. Pilots practice this because recovering from a stall is important. It is especially important near the ground where there may not be enough time or altitude to recover from a stall, and so the airplane will crash. If you are talking about the enging stalling, it could be the same reasons any engine stall, it either has a fuel problem, an ignition problem or a catastrophic mechanical failure. IF you are talking about the wing stalling, then is is because the wing has exceded the critical angle of attack. quite simply the wing produces no lift and the plane is now falling. the only way to recover is to lower the nose reducing the angle of attack to the relative wind, increase the airspeed to once again to produce lift. Hope this helps.

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