Engine Failure after V1

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Post V1 rejected Takeoff

I can tell there are a lot of potential crashes in this forum out there....

Ofcourse if you had plenty of runway, wheels on the ground, lose an engine post V1, pull the other throttles back, stop the aircraft.

Trying to continue the flight, put out the fire, try to get some climb gradient out of your one last engine, in the soup, and try to navigate back to an ILS or whatever is just silly, unless it's the best option.

Obviously given weather conditions (zero, zero), no ILS, mountains all around, and a go decision means flying over to another airport, vs stopping the aircraft on the ground...which decision would a smart pilot make?

SOPS are just that...standard operation procedures. What happens when things aren't standard?

Keep in mind if the plane is under max gross, and you did all your balanced field calcs, and you figured the climb gradients, and performance specs for the single engine climbout, and the subsequent hold, and approach, and possible no flap landing, ect, then for sure go ahead and fly the aircraft off.

I have deleted a paragraph here as it contained a modicum of intemperate comment.

When considering the Concorde crash and the decisions of the pilots, it is essential to keep in mind that the situation was extreme and the pilots (as is generally the case) only had a part of the story and had to make their decisions in a very short timeframe. Certainly, the situation was well outside the certification boundaries and whatever decision was taken was going to have a high probability of unpleasant consequences.

Having taken the decision to continue the takeoff, there is ample evidence to indicate that the crew did a first rate job in the stick and rudder work under extremely difficult circumstances.

Consideration of whether a different decision may have produced a better outcome will, and can only, remain a moot point.

Please, ladies and gentlemen, in this forum we strive for rational observation and comment. We will not tolerate posts (or parts thereof) which are grossly intemperate.

JT

Now we don't have the Concorde program.

Have fun.