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Old 7th Aug 2007, 11:14
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ABUKABOY
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AN12 crash in Domodedovo..............

I remember seeing these taking-off from Istanbul. It always seemed to be a curvature-of-the-earth thing, smoking like an old tramp-steamer. I was told that the trajectory was as much the result of a probable overload as the wide gap between Vr and Vmca at take-off/climb power on these aircraft. Failure of any outboard while transiting this uncomfortably wide no-man's-land saw the aircraft immediately try and roll inverted, (apparently), enough to cope with in VMC, but if they were in IMC??!!
Anyway, condolences as appropriate to all involved.
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