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Yes, because the Observer is as accurate and clear in its reporting and intent as the BEA, CAA, the Daily Mail, inter alia.
All speculation and hogwash. Most folks would have said that gliding an airliner to a safe touchdown is almost impossible. Look up Gimli to see the proof of that lie. Just saying that your paper has spoken with "many pilots" (who were, let's face it, not on board that aircraft), does not mean that you are reporting fact.
Student pilots learn to take off into wind. Airliners regularly (I mean very regularly) take off with at least some tail wind on occasion.
Not only that, please at least run a spell- and grammar-checker whenewe rite sew mutch.