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From the article: They then set the thrust levers to idle and raised the aircraft’s nose, before selecting take-off and go-around power and regaining straight a
by PhantomGremlin 10y ago
From the article: They then set the thrust levers to idle and raised the aircraft’s nose, before selecting take-off and go-around power and regaining straight and level flight at 31,000ft.
Can anyone familiar with these aircraft opine on why the pilot decided to select TOGA in order to complete recovery? They were at perhaps 28,500 feet at the time. Seems like a a panic reaction.
- akira2501 10y agoThe higher the aircraft gets, the thinner the air, and the more power required to quickly add altitude at that point. Most aircraft have a slowly stepped climb and descent managed through ATC that gives them plenty of horizontal miles to change their altitude, so they can more gradually adjust in normal flight without having to use max power. These pilots fell 4,400 feet, I'm sure they wanted to quickly recover to avoid any further problems with other flights in the area.
- lmm 10y agoNot familiar but TOGA is just the aircraft-idiomatic version of "maximum power", no?
- Filligree 10y agoYes, and it wears the engines out much faster than any lower setting would. Grandparent post has a point, though it probably does have to do with recovering as quickly as possible.