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Accidental take-off

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Accidental take-off

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Zippy

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Re: Accidental take-off


	l3v1ck wrote: If the copilot didn't respond to being told to throttle back, why didn't the pilot immediately do it himself? If neither of them was licensed to fly, surely they'd have planned some safety margin with the speed.

I heard the pilot himself on the radio saying that he asked the co to throttle back, didn't get a response, so asked once more before throttling back himself, but at that kind of speed he was already off the ground and 'flew' for about 9 seconds before putting it back down.

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