View Full Version : Tu-22 overrun after above V1 reject
andrasz
30th Sep 2017, 20:55
https://youtu.be/ZzFwjT-D10M
Looks like a very late reject just before rotation, according to the source due to a malfunction of the airspeed sensors. Reasonably lucky outcome.
Matty J
30th Sep 2017, 21:51
Jesus christ! What were they thinking?
Time they threw the chutes there was a couple of hundred meters of runway remaining, if that. Regardless of a dodgy AI i'd have taken it into the air and dealt with it there. Daylight conditions and weather looked fairly good so it shouldn't have been a issue.
A lucky escape, if indeed they did escape.
Thread already running in the Mil Forum since the 15th September :
http://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/599545-backfire-runway-excursion.html