Originally Posted by
tdracer
You're missing my point. Not in any way excusing allowing airspeed to drop 64 kts before taking action - just wondering why that action was so aggressive that it injured people in the back - flinging the flight attendants into the ceiling.
Seems a gentle forward push along with advancing the thrust levers would have been more than sufficient to prevent the aircraft falling out of the sky.
They messed up twice, getting in and getting out.
I haven't flown the 757, but guess min clean would be around 210 ( based on Vref30 + 80 kts and Vref135kts, found on the internetz, FWIW).
I do think that when you get 25 knots below your minimum speed swift action might be required, so I still maintain the first part was the bigger problem.