Originally Posted by
rnzoli
By the way, if you look at figure 15 of the UAV report, it claims that there is an additional tire mark from the tail wheel.
The problem is: it is outside of the right MLG tire marks!
What are the chances that the right tire punctured when hitting the lights and the marks are actually created by a flattened right tyre, also pulling the aircraft to the right?
https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Documen...-FINAL-Rel.pdf
Too much imagination
I am pretty sure this tail wheel's mark outside the mains can be explained by a sideway skid of the airframe.
Think of it as two overloaded brains loosing control of an aircraft getting below vmca.
If you want to extend, they probably didn't even touch the power to go around. Rather than just left it were it was when they were initially trying to bring it to the threshold... Before getting caught by vmca (I'm almost tempted to say vmca becoming vmcg)