Originally Posted by
Chesty Morgan
Yes but reducing thrust on the 737 creates a large nose down moment (pitch/power couple) so as Vessbott stated they would have just hit the ground sooner.
You're right about the thrust pitch couple, but I'm not even talking about that yet, I'm only taking talking about the basic effect of excess thrust on flight path angle.
And to that end, I'm afraid spoilers won't help either, but they'll certainly be a lot less harmful than a thrust reduction with underslung engines.
Unless the pitching moment they add is nose up, which is an answer I don't know. But a nose up pitching moment is what we want, both for the instantaneous normal acceleration upward, and the energy-state perspective on reducing airspeed.
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