You're low, slow and heavy and you lose an engine which takes off flight surfaces. You try everything but a skyhook to hold that piece of metal in the air. Six hands wouldn't be enough, not to mention breaking intense focus. You just don't think about calling home.
You're low, slow and heavy and you lose an engine which takes off flight surfaces. You try everything but a skyhook to hold that piece of metal in the air. Six hands wouldn't be enough, not to mention breaking intense focus. You just don't think about calling home. I didn't say they should have radioed. In fact, I believe that they exploded and COULD NOT call. I merely said that no distress call is inconsistent with a fuel dump. If you have time to dump fuel, you have time to radio your intent to return to field.
My only purpose is to DEBUNK the fuel dump story. Heck, Pataki is already backing off it as I understand.