There was an aircraft that took off from Leeds a few years ago, cannot remember the details that well but they had a severe fire. The pilot put it back down on the runway. The fire was so intense that had he attempted to do a circuit everyone would have perished.
There was an airliner which crashed on fire in Canada because the Captain insisted on flying by the book. Once established on the ILS he aborted the landing to dump fuel 20 miles away. The first officer pleaded with him to land overweight, he ignored the first officer and everyone perished.
I fly Citations and at a runway like Heathrow where I can takeoff three times with a severe fire problem I would put it back down.
Taking V1 ? if V1 is 100 kts does that mean you abort at 99 kts but take off at 101 kts are we all computers without brains and instincts? Some Situations demand that you throw the book away and become a pilot.
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