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Old 13th Sep 2004, 21:13
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I don't think anyone has mentioned the one conclusion that was, I believe, the cause of this becoming an accident rather than just a landing incident.

This is the poor construction of the dog box, which caused thrust to be applied leading to the aircraft departing the clearway. The conclusion was that if the dog box construction was more robust the aircraft would have come to rest within the airport perimeter with little further damage to the aircraft. This is not the first time that this has happened to a B757 yet Boeing do not seem to have any thoughts on rectification of this problem.
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