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Old 13th May 2003 | 11:21
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fireflybob
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A very interesting thread which reminds me of the Airtours (that's British Airtours, by the way, NOT what is now MyTravel!) B707-436 which crashed during training at Prestwick many years ago. All the crew escaped but the aircraft was destroyed.

One of the interesting things in the accident report was that VMCA wings level was 40 kt (yes that's FORTY knots) higher than with 5 degrees of bank towards the live engine. Not that the crew were likely to know this since, at that time, there was nothing in the Flight Manual to tell them.

The accident report made very interesting reading (especially for training/instructor pilots). If they had applied a little bit of bnk towards the live engine they might have got away with it!
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