- Looking at the properly scaled terrain and
- Looking at the very good climb rate of this AC here:
YouTube - Tu 154M 101-go around
can you professionals confirm that this AC was not able to clear 30' trees several hundred meters after clipping a 12' tall sapling?
It would appear to me that:
1) when they did give the haircut to the sapling, they certainly knew they were too low (and this assumes 10 m of visibility)
2) This AC had ample power and responsiveness to climb the approx 30 meters in the 5 intervening seconds.