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Old 19th Jan 2008, 23:11
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I think the most overiding thing is that Captain Burkill and his crew did a SUPERB job in what is surely a nightmare situation.
I hope they did but nobody is telling us anything yet to support that, and it's very irritating and I think contrary to the spirit of air safety.

My simplistic view is if you lose power close to the ground you choose a speed and hold it. I'd be interested in what the crew decided that speed should be. Clearly it would be different to the speed they were approaching at - perhaps close to the stall speed for the configuration (assuming they didn't have enough time or confidence to change eg flaps). My concern is the speed seemed to be choosing itself from the tiny amount of information we've been allowed to hear.

The fact they got over the fence means it was pretty good but there is suggestion it was a heavy landing. This will be an interesting sim exercise I guess. I bet somebody's been doing it a few times somewhere in secret today.

What, in hindsight, do you think was the correct way to handle the landing?
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