Originally Posted by
PILOTGUY
Sorry, but not relevant at all. That crew did not even have a chance to make a decision to continue or return. The engine FOD ingestion sealed the deal for them.
Actually it was the most basic of all principles in flight - airspeed. I read a great report about that accident and with the engine failure and other factors the airspeed needed to maintain level flight was somewhere around 400 knots. With the high drag they could not accelerate and eventually the aircraft slowed until they basically did a VMC roll as I recall.