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The plane appeared to still be nose up as it stalled in like he was trying to power for altitude. One would think if he had no thrust, he’d at least try to bring the nose to level or slightly down to try to establish a glide away from folks on the ground. I don’t think he could have gotten to open ground where there doesn’t appear to be enough room to try to put down the plane with any chance of success, but he could have tried to avoid the buildings, or to the river, but it doesn’t appear that he even tried to turn in that direction (to the right for either).
That's what I've heard.
Very interesting - thanks for posting! Makes sense.
Deployment of the RAT ( unseen in published pic, videos) is the game changer. Back in the day when I worked on ETOPS aircraft, it was an unwanted job to have to deploy and test them.
Fully agree on his theory.
The flap activation leveris on the central console, the gear actuation lever is on the panel and is in the shape of a wheel, gray in color and about three inches in diameter. The spacing is due to inadvertently actuating gear vs flaps. The F/O controls both levers.
Anybody know anything about the gear lifting hydraulics on this plane? A guy yesterday came out with the same idea steeeve is now expressing but he added something Steeeve hasn’t mentioned. The position of the wheels carriage as the plane went down. Usually prior to lifting the gear the wheels are back wheel low front wheel high. As the gear retracts however the carriage goes forward with front wheel lower rear higher in order to clear the bay. In the vid based on the seeming position of the carriage it looks like they may have tried to raise the gear . Was there a coincidental dual engine failure or could some blowout in the hydraulics have interfered with the engines running? If the latter it’ll probably take forever to figure out
No discussion of engine noise or lack of.
The sole survivor said he heard a bang right after takeoff. Perhaps the RAT started because of dual engine failure.
I saw a video of the undercarriage of the aircraft while it was taking off. Was the RAT / RAM deployed just before the crash?
The idea that the copilot accidentally retracted the flaps instead of the landing gear never made sense.
If the plane had two good engines, it could have powered through the increased drag and temporary reduction in lift.
The problem had to be a partial or total loss of power.
I did watch the original and will be sure to catch this one as well.
I watched this video earlier today and was impressed with the logic, reasoning, and evidence presentation to support Captain Steeeve’s revised conclusion. It will be interesting to see how the India aerospace authorities proceed with their investigation since it will have access to the on—board data & voice recorders.
My suspicion would be a problem with the accessory gearbox.
https://www.geaerospace.com/news/articles/manufacturing/magnitude-manufacturing-genx
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