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New London, Wisconsin | A very sad day.
Later news reports I saw corrected the fuel load to be 220,000 lbs. That's just under 33,000 gallons. That's still a heck of a lot of Jet-A. They were too fast to stop as the engine/fire/explosion/departure or what ever is determined to have happened to the number one engine did so after V1, and likely after rotation (nose lifting up). No way to stop on the runway at those speeds.
V1 is the go- no go decision point. A failure after that you deal with in the air. A video from a commercial pilot named pilot Steve said the GPS track shows a peak airspeed of 184 knots. That's 211 mph and enough to climb even on two engines. However, with that left side compromised so badly we don't know what flight controls they may have lost. The max thrust on the right engine can cause a VMC roll over. That does appear to be what happened from video.
There is always so much we don't know until after the NTSB investigation if over. It will be months before we really know.
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UPS jet crash
