Originally Posted by
LarryJ
You are comitted to the takeoff BEFORE the nose is lifted (called rotation). It may have felt as though the nose was going up but if you really did abort after rotation it is unlikely that the airplane was in a condition that would ever allow it to fly again by the time you came to a stop.
The "A-Side"?
The technical term for that is "left side".
I'm pretty sure we were just about getting nose up, I was sitting on the A-side/left side wing (not behind the wing) and it was angled when there was boom sound followed by some flames ripping out of the back of the plane.
Made my job easier, I was working as a news photog at the time for a large international wire service. We evacuated, I shot photos of my fellow pax getting off, some shots of the fire trucks......send off the film, slept and hour and caught another flight home.
Having shot around multiple plane crashes in my news career, including being the pool photog in the make shift morgue for a 747 that blew up, I'm not keen on being on crashing planes. I'd rather shoot news than be news.
.........and left side for whom? Patient Left or Practitioner Left?
