It's only a matter of time when another fool who 'pulls it off no matter what at V1, then flies the unflyable to the scene of the accident'
Amazing how many guys would watch a non-event RTO and still think the pilots should have pulled it off into the soup and fought the problem up there....
Things are not always as clear cut as you would like us to believe. Read the human factors section on this,
http://www.fomento.es/NR/rdonlyres/2...x_English1.pdf
And another,
http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/recletter...10-046-059.pdf
Perhaps they would have fared better had they pulled it into the soup and fought the problem up there. But hind sight is always 20/20 heh
SSG. (No criticism implied or intended of the crews).