Originally Posted by
James S
Given the damage to the aircraft and airport hardware I'd classify this one as a crash, but fortunately a minor one where control was regained after the impacts and no-one was physically hurt.
Did your friend mention anything about smoke in the cabin after take off? This was the reason given initially for not doing a full fuel dump and landing very overweight
I suspect that no one other than the pilots knew how close they come to crashing until a few days after the incident.
Cheers,
Rick