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> They passed V1, so they knew they were going down. To know this, they would have to know they had lost multiple engines. Clearly this is the case by the end
by loeg 1y ago
> They passed V1, so they knew they were going down.
To know this, they would have to know they had lost multiple engines. Clearly this is the case by the end, but it's not clear who realized what at what time.
The NTSB investigation will bring more light.
- octaane 1y agoAgreed, only the NTSB investigation will provide a full account. But if you look at where they were on the runway, they had passed V1.
- loeg 1y agoYes, but multiengine aircraft are designed to take off with one lost engine.
- giantrobot 1y agoThere was more of an issue than just an engine being out. It looks like catastrophic damage to at least the left wing. So you have to now assume an engine out, reduced lift (if not a stall) on one wing, and likely no control surfaces responding on that wing.
- loeg 1y agoI think this conversation has become completely divorced from my original criticism of OP's comment, which is that we don't know what the pilots knew before V1, at V1, after V1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818462 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818462