Originally posted by BoeingBobby
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But "46 years" is a near-worthless argument because Gabriel does have a very fine list of many takeoffs where it FELT wrong, but they just couldn't put their finger on it even though two people ran and checked the math.
...and they achieved V1 with pavement remaining...
Excrement transpires (and I thought that you were different from Evan and made an actual human error or two in your career- where fortunately, the backup caught it).
I don't have every crash memorized but Air Florida at DC always comes to mind...sure, blame CRM "anti-ice"..."onuff"...(or blame a reluctance to firewall the throttles and smoke the engines instead of dunking the whole plane in ice water*) but why not?: A little green target zone around the airspeed needle (which I hope they ARE ALREADY monitoring) would have shown red very early in their takeoff run and lead to a halfway fat and dumb abort.
*Crap, I think this is yet ANOTHER instance where Gabriel feels that maybe the pulled up too much.
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