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2nd Aug 2003, 05:52

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Andrew M

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or how a bird managed to "fly up the" pitot tube while the aircraft was hurtiling along the runway at 100kts +.

Wouldn't the flight crew have noticed that the airspeed indicator wasn't working before getting to that sort of speed anyway ?