737 excessive rotation speed - a hard act to follow
Recently, an incident came to light involving an Indonesian registered Boeing 737 that would astonish Pprune readers used to hairy events common to that part of the aviation world. Edited for brevity. The take off run started on a 10,000 ft length runway.
The crew were apparently unaware of a problem with the captain's ASI until the 80 knot call by the first officer who was PM. The captain elected to keep going. The F/O called V1 and VR from his own ASI which was working normally. The captain continued the take off roll despite his own ASI giving a significant erroneous reading.
Approaching the end of the 10,000 ft runway the captain's ASI read 80 knots and the captain was forced to rotate to avoid an over-run. The aircraft then flew normally. Investigation revealed the actual ground speed at rotation was 298 knots, exceeding the maximum tyre speed limitation by close to 100 knots. A hard act to follow.