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Old 29th Jul 2013, 18:52
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RAT 5
 
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Floating? Never push: never keep pulling back and increasing the angle of attack: better to drop a wing and nudge a main wheel onto the ground and activate the spoilers, works for me: or G/A. It's not the first and not the last, sadly. I believe it happened to a B767 at Newark around 1998?
The scariest thing I ever saw, sat at the holding point LTN RW26, was a BAE146 (which has no TR's) floating, pushing, landing on the nose wheel, bouncing back on to the main-wheels, bouncing back onto the nose wheel (which has no brakes) bouncing back onto the main wheels etc. etc. It stopped before the end, just, and there was an agricultural aroma in the air.
Much is taught about how not to get into the poo: perhaps some more should be taught about how to escape from the more common poo traps.
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