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Another "expert" chiming in on this topic......
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=106332&catid=339
"PhilAtio wrote:
There is always more than one thing that contributes to cause aircraft accidents. This accident occurred at night when visibility to the side of the runway was limited at best. This aircraft had winglets; vertical surfaces behind the center of gravity that act by giving extra lift as well as additional directional control, therefore the maximum crosswind component is less (33 knots vs. 36 knots) than for an aircraft without them. The pilot had reports of gusts to 30 knots, within 3 knots of the limit for this aircraft equipped with winglets. The prevailing wind was from 280 degrees and he was departing from 34(0), a difference of 60 degrees to the heading of the aircraft. Normally wind gusts die down after sunset but not yesterday; they were increasing until about 8:00 p.m. last night. The FAA had departures on 34 and landings on 25 for noise control. The airlines pressure the pilots to depart on time and not screw up the slot assigned by Air Traffic Control by demanding another runway to depart from. This guy took a chance and lost. He was at full throttle and got hit with a gust of wind that exceeded the capability of the aircraft to hold heading at precisely the wrong moment; most probably at rotation speed (lift off the nose wheel) but not liftoff speed (fly off the ground), when the nose wheel authority is low and the rudder authority is higher but not enough to compensate for the lateral velocity of the wind gust and then he found himself going sideways like a weathervane and so, once the aircraft started to veer left off the runway, he had no choice but to pull off the power and ride out the aborted takeoff which was absolutely the correct thing to do. The good news is that no one died. The bad news is that they will probably crucify the pilot for not demanding to depart on 25 if there is any discussion of this on the cockpit voice recorder. And, yes, I am a pilot."
Where do these people come up with this crap???