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Old 19th Jan 2008, 10:39
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rubik101

I suspect you don't fly.

The flight crew were way more than just passengers. The only reason all on board survived is that the aircraft reached the ground wings level. If you want to see what happens when the wings aren't level at touchdown watch the video of the hijacked Ethiopian 767 that ditches.

From finding out they had no thrust the handling pilot used all the knietic and potential energy they had to reach the field, maintaining good forward speed until well into ground effect whilst not allowing the aircraft to stall until very very close to terra firms (if indeed it stalled at all). Had a wing been allowed to drop (ie stall due to low speed) even at 100ft the results would have been very different.

Awesome job well done

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