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To: Red Badger
I still have not gotten a definitive answer on whether or not the aircraft was in landing configuration(gear down/at least partial flaps)before he initiated the go-around. Lots of youtube videos on this from experienced pilots...many with different conclusions. Of course without those 4 minutes of data/voice information the only information would have to come from eyewitnesses/home camera footage.

Talk about lining up holes in the swiss cheese.

Also, didn't I read some administrator/other committed suicide?

5 posted on 01/27/2025 7:56:39 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Does it really matter what it was before the go around? Normally if you do a go around you are going to get the gear up and clean up the flaps. If you look at the landing videos you can see that the aircraft was in the clean configuration (no landing gear or flaps) at touchdown on the runway.

The reason those four minutes are missing is probably due to the bird strikes on both engines that shut both down and thus the electrical power generators. The 737s still have a cable system for actuating the flaps, elevator, and rudder.

The pilots had very, very little time to get through any checklists to the point that they didn’t manually deploy landing gear, which you can do in a 737.

When the pilot brought the aircraft down to the runway it floated about the runway a bit due to ground effect until reaching nearly half way down the runway and crashed into the berm.


17 posted on 01/27/2025 8:28:11 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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