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Old 26th Aug 2019, 09:19
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The initiating event appeared to be diagnosed as a single engine failure at or shortly after take off. Thus gear up, aim for V2, establish safe climb.
Soon after, or coincident, but not immediately noticed, loss of power on second engine. Need to maintain safe flying speed, nose down, accelerate, perhaps brief consideration of glide speed before realisation of imminent landing, thence seek Vref for the configuration, manage the flight path, and position towards a suitable field.
Capt flying aiming for safest landing, P2 attention on attempting to restore some thrust, ………
Little time to consider any normal operation.

Crew acted as they saw the situation at that time, and within the time available between understanding and continually updating their understanding of a surprising, startling, situation, and the rapidly approaching ground - very much faster than normal.
Gear down, calls, etc, never came to mind in the order of events and within the time available - the crew could only operate within the limits of human performance.

They did, well done. We can ask no more.

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