swh,
Would you rather be in the air on fire or on the ground? In some cases as has been pointed out, going off the end of the runway into the grass and ending up on fire...........
Its already been calcualted, at max reverse thrust at the point this flight went to 1.6 EPR, they would have ended up with the airplane hitting the bearm at around 60 knots. If the gear had sunk into the mud they would have never made the berm.
Like I have said before this is all hind sight. No fault of this crew. They followed the rules. Sorry to see them go.
Rockhound,
I don't know why the crew only moved the thrust levers to 1.6 when they realized something was wrong. All I have is the data. Death has coverd his tracks on this one.
