*grin* The question isn't "why did you abort?" isn't valid. The only valid
question is "why didn't you abort?"

The resoloution of the video isn't good enough to see the individual flight
controls (hey... neither is TV), but if you notice how the airplane "pivots"
to the left about midway down the runway, it looks like it's weathervaning
into one hell of a crosswind and probably quite a bit of windshear. Simply
put, the flight crew was probably fighting a very heavy crosswind, decided
to abort, weathervaned out of the slip (for more efficient climb) and
climbed out. I'd say they did a fine job.

Some airliners (especially older ones with older engines) have significant
delays between throttle movement, and the application of power. But, between
the doppler shift heard on the video and the unknown distance between the
camera (presumably with a microphone on it) and the airplane, I couldn't
really tell when the power came up. I would, however, speculate that the
decision to abort was made about the time the nose dipped :-).

-Rob

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Can anyone tell me what's happening in this clip? Why was the landing
aborted?

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~rajwar/base/...nes.whoops.mov

It appears the pilot is coming in rather fast and at too much of an angle,
but that could just be my amateur's eye. I'm not a pilot... yet.

Also, what kind of delay is there from the time the pilot goes full
throttle until the plane actually reacts? Near-immediate, or to have such
a close call would the pilot likely have goosed it a few seconds before we
actually see the plane start to go back up?

Thanks

S.