Originally Posted by
AirRabbit
No. This was
not a situation where someone (the crew) decided to “save the engines and lost the airplane.” This was
not a situation where the crew simply sat there … not doing “jack.” I won't go into the gory details here - because discussing them takes a lot of space - space that perhaps the readers of this thread may not be interested in using to take the discussion in a new direction.
I should think that if the Air Florida guys had not taken off with a bunch of wet snow on the wings, they would not have had their pitch-up. If they had bothered to turn the engine anti-ice on, they would have had their proper power setting for takeoff and there would not have been a need to add a bunch of thrust just to get to takeoff thrust. Somehow, I think they would have been in a better position if a normal thrust setting was used for takeoff. Doing a powerback from the gate on a heavy snow day in a 737 seems to be a strange decision as well.