Piper PA28-236 Dakota: structural failure far below VNE

Vne per the Dakota POH is 173 knots.

173 mph = 150.3 knots

As the crash detection seems to occur around 150 knots, it stands to reason this could be, as @Hasheminia said, that the Vne limitation of the flight model was entered as 173mph instead of 173 knots (or the incorrect conversion was done somewhere else in the process).

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