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Old 26th Feb 2009, 17:33
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Originally Posted by Dani
Let me reassure you that this THY aircraft crash landed with relatively normal landing speed, around reference speed. The investigators will certainly confirm that as soon as they have the results.

Originally Posted by Dani
You may call it luck but I say that this was a near perfect landing on a soft field. (that doesn't imply that the crew didn't do mistakes before).
I favour Rainboe's theory. I higly doubt this aircraft landed in a controlled state at near normal speed.

I consider it to be an uncontrolled crash following a stall.

Early remarks from the investigators also supprt this scenario. Turkish 737 had 'low forward speed' before Amsterdam crash

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