Lee why’d that India plane crash?
I can’t be sure but it looks to me that when the Pilot Flying called for “Gear up” the Pilot Monitoring actually put the flaps up instead. The video I saw seem to look and sound like the engines are still running until the crash and the gear was still down. Could they be at Partial power? Due to fuel contamination or fuel starvation of some kind? Maybe. I don’t think it was birds or anything because you don’t see any debris or smoke or anything going on with the engines. I don’t think it was a single engine failure because I see no yaw or any controllability signs to indicate that. I can only guess that it was a loss of lift from the inadvertent premature retraction of flaps at very high weights and low airspeed. What do you think?
When would they have typically retracted the flaps?
They probably wouldn’t even start until around 800-1,000 AGL(above ground level).
If they went straight from an intermediate flap setting to up, it would take time to fully retract and dump all the lift.