In a previous life flying the 737, a tailstrike happened in the company during crosswind conditions.
One of the findings in the investigation was that, due to excessive control wheel displacement (obviously to counteract the effects of x-wind) spoiler deployment occured. This, in addition to the use of flaps 1 which of course also reduces tail clearance, probably was an attributary factor in the scraping the back end (i.e. loss of lift and thus delaying lift off)...
Just my 2 cents worth. TS737
Last edited by TopSwiss 737; 31st December 2008 at 09:55.
Reason: typo