Reading the posts in this thead I get the feeling that the runway state is becoming less and less relevant as to the cause of this accident.
The fact that one thrust lever/engine was producing climb thrust and the other was in reverse, caused the computer logic to disarm the autobrakes, and kept the speedbrakes/spoilers retracted....
All of this on a wet/slippery, short runway.
But suppose this happened on an 11,000 foot runway in dry weather, (with the same pilot actions whatever they were) one engine in CLB and the other in reverse would still lead to a serious situation......It would veer off to one side, unable to stop, (same as at Congonhas) and would continue through the grass until the gear snapped away. A sort of runaway plane.
Last edited by fox niner; 1st Aug 2007 at 19:59.