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Old 18th Sep 2011, 21:09
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Machinbird
 
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So the captain hit the brakes? (FO: "what are you doing?")
Anything is possible. He could have been pulling off power on the center engine or reducing flap setting for example. By then they were in extremis and the aircraft was not rotating.
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