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Old 02-10-2010, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by IrishTiger View Post
I can't think of how this could have happened. I would have imagined in CRW it would have been a flaps 20 takeoff. If the flaps were at 0, 30, or 45 as soon as the thrust was pushed up they would have gotten a T/O config warning. The airplane only allows takeoff from 8 or 20. If the flaps were at 8, why would the nose be coming off the ground at 100kts?

I'm lost.
I can only imagine, Purely speculation here, that they MIGHT have had the flaps set at 20, when called for 8, and she started lifting up on them and they reset to 8 and got the ding and thus aborted. Either way this violates common sense and training and deems retraining or ' other ' .
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