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Old May 28, 2007, 10:42 am
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virtualtroy
 
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BA 899 ye'day: scary climb

Not the best of circumstances, take-off in a v bad sandstorm on yesterday's TIP-LHR, but there was a deeply unpleasant moment during the climb: just as we hit the worst part of the sandstorm, aircraft lurched over to the right by about 45-60 degrees (rapidly corrected by captain) but (non-expert knowledge) presumably due to a very temporary failure of RH engines? We were barely 2,000 above ground and, for a moment, I thought we were heading straight back there.
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