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Author Topic: Russian Jet Carrying Hockey Team Crashes, 43 Dead  (Read 39277 times)

Offline NoMad

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Re: Russian Jet Carrying Hockey Team Crashes, 43 Dead
« Reply #25 on: November 07, 2011, 03:49:59 PM »
Most likely that is correct.  I don't know the stopping distance number.  But look at it this way.  Even if there was not enough runway to stop and an overrun was inevitable, they would have overrun and crashed a slow speed rather than balls to the wall.  Hence the safer outcome would have been rejecting.

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Re: Russian Jet Carrying Hockey Team Crashes, 43 Dead
« Reply #26 on: November 07, 2011, 08:33:37 PM »
"An AVI video showing the reconstructed flight was later released."

From AvHerald.


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Re: Russian Jet Carrying Hockey Team Crashes, 43 Dead
« Reply #27 on: November 10, 2011, 12:13:24 PM »




             Very tragic.  Especially considering the fact that this is an accident that should never had happened.

             I was just wondering, not being a pilot, what the mindset is of a pilot who is running out of runway.

             Is it human nature to want to force the issue (get it up), or would any well trained pilot instinctively

             abort the take-off ?    Sorry if it's a stupid question...