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Old 18th November 2007 | 16:03
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ChristiaanJ
 
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I would have expected collapse there and concertina-ing rather than 'up-and-over'.
If you start thinking about the dynamics of it... given a low speed, some thrust and not too much weight on the nosewheel, the nosewheel would just have run up the deflector, tilting the aircraft backwards but hardly slowing it.
With a sudden nasty drop once the nosewheel went over the edge, chopping off the cockpit.
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