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Used to be Singpilot...
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Sioux Falls, SD is what the reg says on the bus.
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Rick;
We are assuming everybody followed the rules. The airline involved has a checkered past. While the crew by reputations seem to be legit, the operations and financial parts of this airline are dubious.
Some different postulations are surfacing. Runway length should not have been an issue (playing by the rules). The MD11(F) has some 'peculiarities', not usually on takeoff, though. The loss of the center engine produces a nose up moment, but that was not the reason for the tail strike. It looks like that was an over-rotation at the end of the runway. The plane did get 10 feet airbourne, striking the localizer antenna, and losing speed and altitude doing so.
The possibility of a cargo shift going airbourne is also a possibility. The sad part is the loss of the crew. The DFR and the CVR have been recovered.
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