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back to Boeing
Just an educated guess.
So whilst there had been an "incident" the crew decided to action the appropriate after landing scan/procedure. Also this would allow any fire services better access to wheel/engine areas.
Hence flaps retracted and thus why flaps not in the 40 position.
Very questionable practice, that. They've overrun into the bundhu, the aircraft is covered in mud and who knows what else and they retract the flaps without any engineering inspection, just hoping they were not damaged by debris and would do five times more damage on retraction?
On second thoughts, I'd call that grossly unprofessional, if that is what happened.
To allow fire services access! What a joke! Surely no one really "thinks" like that - do they???
But having read the rest of the reports/transcript I take that back. It is entirely in keeping with their level of "professionalism".
The people who should be fired along with them are the idiots that hired that company to fly Mr Pence and his entourage - or were thet secretly Democrats?