Security camera footage shows take-off and crash of Air India plane in Ahmedabad
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Security camera footage accessed and verified by the Associated Press showed Air India flight 171 bound for London taking off and crashing into a medical college in the northwestern city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing more than 180 people in one of India's worst airline disasters in decades.
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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11 months

    Flaps are typically retracted not long after takeoff anyway, every flight I’ve been on has done that.

    • JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      11 months

      There are minimum airspeeds the aircraft must reach before the flaps can be safely retracted. I don’t know the exact numbers, but assuming a standard flaps 5 takeoff for B787, retraction to flaps 1 would occur around 1000 ft by earliest, that’s typically 20 to 30 seconds after the takeoff.

      • kcuf2@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        11 months

        Also gear should probably be retracted first (though I don’t actually know for certain for this aircraft)

        • JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          11 months

          Usually the gear is retracted almost immediately after takeoff, as it creates a huge amount of unnecessary drag if left out when not needed.

          • kcuf2@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            11 months

            Ya that’s true for multiengine in general. I just didn’t know if there was any other sequencing needed for the 787 (like move flaps from 5 to 4) because I know nothing about flying such large planes.