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Old 23rd April 2024 | 06:51
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FullWings
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It would be interesting to know what the reason was, as it would have to be a seriously good one to reject the landing after reverser deployment. As AF is an EASA operation, they should have done a IFLD assessment, which would have given a stopping margin and gates for a safe touchdown and rollout. Thinking about the sequence of events: flare and thrust to idle, touchdown, reverser deployment, reverser stowing, thrust to GA, accelerate to Vref then rotate, the amount of runway used between touchdown and the wheels leaving the runway again would be substantially more than a normal rejected landing, due to the reversers going in and out, presumably while braking was ongoing.

I’m fairly certain that FOQA would trigger an investigation for this incident, but it would likely be an internal one, unless it was deemed serious enough to pass to the regulator, and even then it may never make it into the public domain.
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