Originally Posted by
lederhosen
Thanks BO0m we don't of course know the wind, which would also effect groundspeed. Just a wild thought, but is it possible that the pitch angle might be the start of an attempted go-around?
If I understood correctly the procedure would be to fly Flaps 15 at around 150 knots downwind, then turn base reducing speed and selecting Flaps 30 to aim for a Vref 107 + 5(min). There is no auto thrust so power would ...
We don't know the wind, but we can go a bit towards estimating it.
The ordinary weather website I found had surface wind 6 mph SSE at 9am, 2 mph S at midday. Crash is just before 11 am. Of course we don't know what sort of wind gradient there would be.
Someone said the videos are irrelevant. Perhaps not completely. The one from the bloke on the ground can be used to deduce a reasonable estimate heading of the aircraft, ahead of better info from the data recorder. The one from the helicopter flying around the scene afterwards confirms a southerly wind from low down to the height the helicopter is at.