barit1 :
Its not a matter of takeoff power or TOGW or runway length. Its a matter of a deformed leading edge that causes a pitch-up in the B737. You can choose to believe that or not. The AF accident was more than 20 years ago -- there has been a lot learned about hold-over times and deicing procedures in general. For that I am thankful. However, once that crew advanced the power with the intention of taking off, they were doomed. Full power from the initiation of the takeoff roll would have served no purpose unless they held the airplane on the ground until it accelerated to an airspeed where the all of the wing surfaces would support the weight of the airplane. As long as they indended to rotate at the computed rotate speed they were destined to crash -- full power or no power. Full power would likely have carried them beyond the 14th street bridge and those killed or injured ON the bridge would not have been -- but the rest of the scenerio would have been the same.
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AirRabbit