Originally Posted by
Nada Surf
Agreed and a valid point. I guess what I was trying to say is that the same mistakes, moving the flaps during T.O, aborting after V1, spoilers not coming up ( or did they?) in a Heavy full of fuel and lots of people would have been a much more tragic outcome, they would not have stopped (think huge Fire Ball).
The RJ is a little more forgiving.
The spoilers came up after the abort was initiated as the spoilers come up when you move the thrust levers to idle and are greater than something like 30kts (don't know the number off hand).