14 ordspråk av Réal Levasseur
Réal Levasseur
Definitely because of the weather conditions, the deceleration would have been much slower than what it would have been for a dry runway with maximum braking. The brakes are much less efficient on a wet runway than a dry runway.
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I'm very happy to report we have good, solid data that will allow us to . . .start removing wreckage from the site much earlier than we would have anticipated.
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It tracked nicely down the runway, except it didn't stop.
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The engines are in fairly good shape considering the fire damage.
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The pilot flying was fairly close to the airspeed that he should have been at.
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The runway is about 9,000 feet long, so touching down long at 4,000 feet ... under those conditions I am pretty convinced that there was no way the aircraft was going to be able to stop before the end of the runway.
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The weather was pretty ugly. Certainly, the environment is a fairly significant factor.
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There are quite a few witnesses who say they observed the aircraft halfway down the runway, longer than normal and longer than usual for this type of aircraft.
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These guys were doing 150 [knots] and visibility was severely reduced.
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We are going to look at all aspects of this accident - weather is one of them, aircraft performance is another one. An accident seldom happens as a result of one cause.
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We don't have any indication that any part of the airplane is missing.
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We don't want to cause any more psychological damage to that individual until ... we have been assured that he is capable of talking to us.
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We have indications that he did land perhaps a bit long on the runway.
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We have to get it right. If we get it wrong, they're going to continue to happen.
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