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Old 28th Jan 2014, 00:22
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Chris Scott, Hi,


This may have been a display which had been practiced a number of times successfully, probably along a "standard R/W" somewhere. To have to alter the R/W on "short finals", to fly over the grass R/W at Habsheim, whilst still at Flight Idle, probably meant a loss of some of the intended or planned altitude.


The practice flights would not have had trees, I would suppose... Nor a requirement to alter to a parallel R/W when low. So just IF there had been a slow build up of thrust, or even a failure of one engine (and THIS DID NOT HAPPEN at Habsheim) an adequate climb at V2 ought to be enough ... If there were no trees along the extended centre line...


I can only guess that almost any other transport aircraft, if it attempted to follow the same trajectory, would have ended in a similar result.
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