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Old 7th May 2007, 01:53
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xsbank
 
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Was this entire event conducted on the 'tower' freq? If so, the occasional interjections by atc using 'mayday Thompson', offering whatever help was available, kept the rest of any traffic on the freq. silent.

I couldn't find anything to debrief on this event (I'm such a hero) except to stop the a/c on the runway, perhaps, because of the extent of the engine damage and the reported FOD (thank God for kevlar); I thought it was the type of scenario I try and obtain from my crews in the sim.

The authorities that be were contemplating de-emphasizing V1 cuts in training because they are so rare, but here is a real-life one. I always thought the V1 cut was a mind-game, practised endlessly to teach the crew to stay calm and follow procedures (unless something else happens to require the crew to use its collective brain to save themselves without SOPs!)

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