The term “death spiral” comes to us from the early days of aviation. When planes were made of sticks and cloth — a sort of flying sailboat — the entire thing was an unstable mess. A spiraling fall from a few dozen feet was survivable but not pretty. Any higher and the downward death spiral would spin the pilot into dizziness and a fatal crash.
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