Originally Posted by
Mach E Avelli
Initiating gear retraction would take 3 seconds at the most - hardly enough time for the power to go right back to negative thrust, .
Imagine the friction is not set properly before takeoff..
roll down the runway, airborne, hand off lever to raise the gear... and this happens.
hardly enough time for the lever to go back?
now imagine that you grab the control wheel with that hand you took off the power lever to raise the gear, rather than putting it back on the power levers... because all of a sudden you have a large yaw that requires control input to help manage...
and some panic thinking “engine failure”...
not such an implausible theory as S7700 might imply.
once again, I’m not saying this was the cause of this accident.
its hard to investigate and prove as being the cause; look up the report for VP-BBK, that’s got a good write up on this scenario.