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Old 29th Dec 2018, 07:13
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Sailivi, would it not make more sense to read the report first and comment afterwards. They DID have enough energy to do a normal landing as they where in fact a bit high, a bit fast and they had a tailwind. They did not have a total loss of thrust either, the engines maintained approx 41% N1 (while commanded at TOGA thrust). The first point of ground contact was almost halfway down the runway. The (very understandable) decision to Go Around led to a stall and a hard landing in a stalled condition. The moral of the story is if you have to go through a flock of birds in short final it is better to continue to land with engines at low power than trying to GA at GA power. Partly because at low power most of the birds will go just through the fan and at high power they will go through the hot section.

I am sure I would not have done any better than the crew involved nevertheless it is interesting to learn what could have worked.
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