After abrupt descent that unnerved air-traffic controllers, crew of PIA jet briefly put it on runway with wheels still up, grinding along on its two engines.
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What if they didn’t forget to lower the landing gear, but decided to make a late go-around (when understood they spent too much of the runway) and prematurely pulled up flaps and landing gear? They were too low, airplane continued to sink after flaps were pulled up and engines scratched the runway before enough thrust was generated to lift the airplane up again.
What if they didn’t forget to lower the landing gear, but decided to make a late go-around (when understood they spent too much of the runway) and prematurely pulled up flaps and landing gear? They were too low, airplane continued to sink after flaps were pulled up and engines scratched the runway before enough thrust was generated to lift the airplane up again.