747focal, I assume you have access to FDR data. It seems to me that this takeoff was a pretty tight balanced field situation. I can't imagine that they somehow didn't grasp that approaching V1 at reduced power, shot their balanced field numbers all to heck. Maybe fatigue would explain this.
Anyway you look at it, they were in a bad fix if they didn't discover the low power settings until V1 (much farther down the runway than V1 should have been).
Last edited by Flight Safety; 16th Nov 2004 at 20:47.