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Old 8th Mar 2017, 08:32
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Sillert,V.I.
 
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Something that hasn't had much coverage is just how close he came to flying away. Extrapolating the flightpath and perusing the data from the AAIB test flights suggests the margin by which it impacted the ground was about the same as the margin by which the Typhoon at RIAT missed it. 50ft at the apex and the outcome would likely have been very different, in either case.

If he'd flown away, we could have learned everything we've learned from this, and probably much more, without any of the tragic consequences. It does beg the question of why we didn't seemingly learn it from the Typhoon incident.
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