Analysis of Available Data
Back to where we were two years ago Walter.
If you ignore the RACAL analysis, there is no data to analyse.
If you use RACAL, then your reconstruction, even if done expertly, shows what may have happened.
Mr Cable's figures show impact at around 150 IAS. He is an accredited expert witness dealing with real wreckage.
Ignoring RACAL entirely, Mr Holbrook did not describe an aircraft thundering along at just below VNE.
No significant deceleration was made in the final two miles. That is if you examine all the evidence, instead of cherry picking the bits you like. Speed either stayed the same or increased.
I, and I think many others on this site, are quite happy to accept that this accident may have been caused, at least in part, by visual illusion. For whatever reason, the crew misjudged their range to the coast and screwed up their escape.
Why can't you accept the equally valid explanation. The crew did not slow because they could not slow.