Accidents
Botched Go-around Appears To Have Led to Emirates 777 Crash
Pilots applied engine thrust just three seconds before impact

The pilots of the Emirates Airline Boeing 777-300 that crash landed in Dubai on August 3 applied full thrust only three seconds before runway impact during an attempt at a go-around, according to a preliminary report issued September 6 by the United Arab Emirates’ General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA). During the sequence of events detailed in the report, the engines did not respond until one second before impact, too late to apply enough lift to avoid the crash.