With S.F.L.Y. here. No one can say if Captain Burkill made the wrong move. Raising flaps while short at low speed and high AoA is not something I would do. Dumping drag is also dumping lift, and the first thing that big bird is going to do with a cleaner wing is sink. If the nose is not lowered, and the Stall Speed is elevated by cleaning the wing, well, never Stall. Ever. Turkish Stalled and the nose occupants croaked. Then again, it may have been brilliant, I wasn't there.
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