FACTS:
The AMX crew didnīt report the tail strike.
The AMX reported that they had a problem with the pressurized system, so they need to burn fuel and return to LEMD.
Before the AEA take off, some other planes departed without problem.
The place where the tail strike was is around 4km away from the Tower.
Letīs talk about the facts, and do not make an exercise of imagination on what was the atc doing.
What I suspect is the AMX had the tail strike and didnīt notice how severe was until they reach certain altitude, probably the bulk (pressurized) was damaged and help to do a bigger hole in the cone. Of course if the AMX crew were aware of the tail strike and reported to the atc, a runway inspection is mandatory.
Not long ago a RYR had a tyre burst in Fuerteventura and reported to the APP ATC 10 min later, meanwhile an ATR72 of Binter departed from the same runway and reported some debris in the last third of runway. So please donīt start to blame the ATC, we try to know the maximun information of our runway, but guessing is not yet available.
Last edited by dav_vader; 17th Apr 2013 at 14:53.