View Single Post
Old 02-10-2010, 10:59 AM
  #10  
mooney
Gets Weekends Off
 
mooney's Avatar
 
Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: CL-65 captain
Posts: 2,244
Default

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.

bad trim setting? if you miss the flaps, if that was the case, probably a good chance you might miss the trim setting too.
or the media got it wrong and it was a trim problem not a flap problem
mooney is offline