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Old 14th Oct 2019, 04:12
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F50 off the runway at HKNW

I have been wondering if someone would post about the Silverstone Fokker 50 that ended-up in the bushes at Nairobi's Wilson airport a couple of days ago.

https://aviation-safety.net/database...?id=20191011-0

The report above says it 'veered off the runway', but in fact it just went straight into the bush and fence directly off the end of rwy 14. Looks like a last-minute reject. And since everyone survived it's hard to criticize that decision. But just a tad more energy and they would have found themselves hitting a steep embankment and a major road. It was fully loaded on a wet runway. Cool early morning but still a density altitude >7,000'. Can these venerable beasts climb-out if they loose an engine after V1?
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