Birdstrike or a tragic 'forgetfulness' of pilots: the hypotheses of the India crash. And the 'yellow' about Flightradar
The video, shot with a cell phone on the roof of a building near the Ahmedabad airport, where a Boeing [...]
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The video, shot with a cell phone on the roof of a building near the Ahmedabad airport, where this morning an Air India Boeing 787-8 crashed moments after takeoff, shows the Dreamliner a couple of hundred meters above the ground With all the bogies still down. He's nose up, but he doesn't go up. A few seconds and stalls, starts to lose altitude, as the snout points uselessly higher and higher, before disappearing behind the city buildings and a huge fireball soars skyward.
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The dynamics of the accident suggests. A catastrophic loss of power in both engines. Now, that on takeoff an airplane 'loses' one of the engines due to a technical failure may be okay, but That he would lose two is so unlikely as to be impossible.
Unless the 787 fell victim to a birdstrike, with birds ending up in both engines causing a total loss of power as had happened to the US Airways A320, which after taking off from New York La Guardia had 'ditched' in the Hudson River. The fact that the plane had all the bogies still down however, suggests that the pilots realized that something serious was going on already on the runway takeoff run when they had already exceeded the 'no-return' speed (V1) or at any rate just after taking the wheels off the ground.
Another hypothesis could be that of a tragic error by the pilots themselves, who may have failed to extend flaps and slats during the pretakeoff check-list phase, with fatal consequences for the plane's lift already observed in other similar incidents, especially in the presence of very high outside temperatures such as those present in Ahmedabad at the time of the crash (1:38 p.m. local time) where there were more than 40 degrees celsius. However, the images so far received of the plane as it 'glides' over the houses are not such that it is possible to see whether the moving surfaces of the wing had been pulled out.
Finally, there is one puzzling element: according to Flightradar24 tracking, flight AI171 would have started its takeoff run roughly from the middle of runway 05/23 in Ahmedabad. The taxiway, in fact, does not reach the head of runway 23, but ends near its middle. E pilots, instead of taxiing on the runway to its beginning and then doing 180 degrees and using all 3,600 meters of its length, They used about 2,000 meters of runway, still managing to take off and bring the plane to almost 700 feet (200 meters altitude) and 174 knots of speed (322kmh) just after the end of the runway itself 8still according to data recorded by FR24).
