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Old 17th Jan 2002, 16:03
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Like many accidents, the cause that precipitated the incident MAY have been containable, were it not for other contributory factors.

Thus....

tailwind (fact)

overweight (fact) (and lets not forget, not only overweight but just over the edge on balance too)

missing spacer (fact)

.......whatever, when it came to the crunch they all added up.

8kts on the nose MIGHT have helped (eg may not have smashed runway light if airborne earlier, may not have even hit metal)

less weight MIGHT have helped, etc etc....

....of course we will never know, they may have made the crash even worse if it had come down elsewhere....

But the Moral? NEVER discount a contributory factor. Whatever the official report says, (& because of the speculation around this, one could be led to suspect that the findings may be biased in terms of shifting blame and liability) no-one can afford to be complacent "cos it's all fixed now".

Please think of that next time you have to weigh up requesting a backtrack against a downwind getaway....
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