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Old 12th Mar 2007, 18:41
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atiuta
 
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Agreed.

Doesn't explain how the nose gear collapsed though and, lets face it, that was the real issue today.

According to my in depth investigation that is now complete, there are two possible causes.

(1) The Biman crew rejected beyond Vr and "lowered" the nose gear onto the runway thereby breaking the Nose Gear.

(2) Poor maintenance resulted in the nose gear collapse at some point on the TO roll.

Pilots say (2), Engineers say (1).

Seriously, they used all 4000m of 12L so they must have been moving rather quickly at RTO time.
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