Originally Posted by
RAT 5
And no-one has brought up the question of "why didn't they extend the flaps a little more?"
I did wonder if the timely application of a further stage of flaps might get you in the air quicker and indeed posted the question, but the moderator deemed it inadmissible and it was quickly vanquished. No idea why, as the skipper pulled in a notch of flap in the BA 777 crash to stretch the glide so I don't see why the opposite might be useful in a situation like this.
Hence why I spend about 10 minutes a month browsing this site as opposed to hours each week, but that's a discussion for another day...