WIXerGreg wrote:
For clarity, noone in this thread has blamed the pilots or overloading for the current incident. I was simply replying to the 'shouldn't they be able to fly on one engine' question.
conjecture, absolutely... most postings on this site to do with these types of situations are conjecture.. the flying wing one is shaping up to be one of those as well..
pointless? well I disagree.. Greg has indicated all he was doing was addressing the "why didn't it fly on one engine" line of questioning.. which is also quite prevalent on some of the other sites as well, with the usual assumption that the airplane was overloaded..
what I'm saying is that there is another possibility that they could fly on one engine, but chose to put it down ASAP.. there's a few things that come to my mind that could cause that..
conjecture? absolutely.. but instead of beating the "overloaded" horse to death why not think of other possibility's.. one day the final report will come out and it may say "grossly overloaded" or it may say something that no one else here even thought about.. in the meantime, what ever the reason was cudo's to the pilots for getting it down, and getting out safely..