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Old 10th Sep 2016, 09:31
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The following is a direct cut and paste from the preliminary report, rewritten in chronological form (calculated times in RED)
0837:17 As recorded by the Aircraft flight data recorder, the weight-on-wheels sensors indicated that the right main landing gear touched down

0837:19 the Aircraft runway awareness advisory system (RAAS) aural message “LONG LANDING, LONG LANDING” was annunciated.

0837:20 [touchdown] by the left main landing gear. The nose landing gear remained in the air.

0837:23 the Aircraft became airborne in an attempt to go-around and was subjected to a headwind component until impact

0837:27 the flap lever was moved to the 20 position

0837:28 the air traffic control tower issued a clearance to continue straight ahead and climb to 4,000 feet. The clearance was read back correctly.

0837:29 the landing gear lever was selected to the UP position. Subsequently, the landing gear unlocked and began to retract.

0837:35 both thrust levers were moved from the idle position to full forward.

0837:36 both engines started to respond to the thrust lever movement showing an increase in related parameters.

0837:38 the Aircraft aft fuselage impacted the runway
There is a lot happening to process in a very short space of time. There would have also been the cross flight deck commands as well as the ATC instructions /readback.

The report doesn't include anything about TOGA during the factual sequence, however, it get special emphasis in the Go-Around section (1.17.2)

F16-GUY, I wondered if you would drop in with your handle being Boyd's design. My understanding is his EM-Theory was to find a way to enable incredibly high turn rates, and high rates of acceleration and deceleration (fast transients) to confuse an opponent.

What is even more interesting is how he took this concept, and adapted it to the more general case of timescales & confusion (Destruction and Creation) applicable to almost all human activity. His thinking can be applied to the civilian aviation world by knowing what to avoid, that is, things that cause confusion. Keep safe by avoiding trying to do many complex things too quickly too close to something hard.
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