Thread: BA Flight lands short of Runway
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Old 17-01-2008, 23:00   #32
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Re: BA Flight lands short of Runway
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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter View Post
Sorry yes as BBKing says the net effect is that the airspeed of the plane will drop once the event has occurred. If the aircraft is on autothrottle then it'll be the machinery itself getting it into a pickle.
and with low to no groundspeed the plane will stop before it even gets to the start of the runway?
I'm no expert at this but extrapolating what I am reading and understanding here and seeing that the plane stopped very quickly.
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