1. So it might have been a bounce in fact - but you don't retract the gear after a bounce....
2. So it's probably a go-around - but then throttles should be advanced ....
3. So it might have been a bounce in fact - but you don't retractt the gear after a bounce....
4. So it's probably a go-around - but then throttles should be advanced....
5. So it might have been a bounce in fact......
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And in a punitive culture like this ME company seems to be, the Captain was probably thinking about the report or the visit to the office, from the very first second of the "incident" - thus hampering his accident-resolution capabilities (if any) I had that one day in Europe on our very nice dutch-built liner : we had barely started any check-list or actions, that the F/O was already elaborating about reporting the incident.....