The weight on the nose remains during T/O until around 100kts or so when they rotate -
True, but the gear is in ‘straight’ position on TO and landing. It looks like the fail was with the left taxi turn, when the gear got all the weight on its right side, and it crumpled.
55 posted on 07/22/2013 4:17:23 PM PDT by txhurl
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