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Old 05-01-2002, 07:51 PM   #11
MaggieL
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"The nose bcame unstable", eh?

On a close inspection you can see that the left maingear dug in briefly too, just before the flip....and there's no tracks leading up to that divot. LIke maybe the nosegear touched *before* the left main. Possible she forced it onto the ground while it was still going too fast. Might have been a good time to retract the flaps (they're still lowered in the pic), but it's the dickens hard to think of *all* the "coulda/shoulda" items in the heat of the moment.

The left wingtip is a little mangled too, but that prolly happened during the flip.
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