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Old 3rd Jun 2020, 17:43
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It's long time ago but I remember RW14 has a dip somewhere around maybe1000ft from the threshold if you float past that it gives a feeling of ballooning. Need to put the aircraft down. Two Air India aircraft have gone off the other end. The first one was B747-300 which was poor piloting landing in rain with no Auto brake, idle reverse and late insufficient manual braking led to that. The second one was B747-400 landing in the infamous deluge of 2005 that had breached the boundary wall and unnoticed some oil had floated in smearing the runway and making it slippery.
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