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Old 19th Sep 2008, 16:40
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It seems that, these guys did a brave flapless/slatless take off on an MD-83 and (barely) survived.

The official CIAIAC preliminary report (over a year old), though, still doesn't mention these (presumed) facts.

05-06-2007. OE-LMM. McDonnell-Douglas MD83. Aeropuerto de Lanzarote (Las Palmas) - CIAIAC - Ministerio de Fomento

We will patienly wait for the final report, although I'm not sure what's taking so long in a case where the airplane was intact and the crew available for investigation. Gravevine is that crew found the famous c/b pulled, thus TOWS was inop, thus they took off w/o realizing the flaps weren't out ...

This close to another accident like this, I heard. Luckily, some of the flight conditions, crew response (and shear luck) were more in their favor ...

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