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Germany’s BFU says the flight recorder captured brake-pedal movements as a Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9 accelerated for takeoff at Munich. The twinjet rotated below V1, lifted off from the grass and struck runway equipment, sustaining a tail strike and severe fuselage damage.
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