Pilot may have been in a hurry on the checklist and forgot to deploy the flaps before takeoff. It’s happened before.
Aircraft stalls and crashes.
Never flew nor studied heavy jets so I assumed that the aircraft would not have gained any altitude loaded heavily if the flaps were not properly set for takeoff.
I would have thought it would go into the bushes at the end of the runway when it ran out of the ground cushion..
Not arguing the point as I have no time in big iron.
Xactly. Recall the Northwest DC-9 flight out of Detroit Wayne about 1992 or so. No flaps set; lifts off barely and promptly crashes in Romulus near I-94.
My Detroit area terminal was located just down the street from the crash site and for several years after I was spooked every time I used the onramp to I-94 where so many had perished.