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Old 21st May 2023 | 17:29
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Originally Posted by vilas
It's clearly concluded that Tail strike happened due to faster rate of rotation and reaching an attitude beyond tail clearance attitude. The discussion is about did prevailing tail wind as suggested facilitate that?
Just stating the obvious: Steady state tailwinds won't change anything about the rotation from a physic's point, and changing wind conditions apply the same to HW as they do to TW.

The thing I can imagine happening with a strongish TW vs the more normal HW in combination with a heavy AC is the ground speed will be much higher, and that sight picture might have led the pilot to make an inappropriately large ANU input.
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