Speed-data entry error preceded 747-400F’s undetected tail-strike

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German investigators have disclosed that an Air Atlanta Icelandic Boeing 747-400 freighter captain entered an incorrect rotation speed into the flight-management system, before the aircraft sustained a tail-strike on take-off from Frankfurt Hahn.

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