I have been searching CliveL's post for the quoted language from BEA that rejects any involvement of the oscillation, that there even was one. It seems to have been censored out.
Would you be able to locate it?
From the ruddering the Captain did, and the direction of the a/c well left of the runway heading, is it possible to surmise that something about the ruddering prompted Captain to give up, and accept a takeoff off runway as his best chance?
At the beginning of the veer left, to the take off point, there appears no correction right. Right rudder may have exacerbated the side load on the left bogie, and made any problem with the gear bad enough to cause him to abandon rudder as correction?
Last edited by Lyman; 19th Dec 2012 at 17:02.