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I don't think the way the character House responded in any given situation was ever intended to be the a model of how someone should respond. His character was written to be jarring and for most of any episode he was wrong. Episodes usually ended up with him being right about the medical problem, still not right about how things were handled and very wrong about the human interaction. Thinking the AIS episode was pretty good from the point of view of introducing people to the condition and providing a clear House-example of how not to handle the human interaction.

You have a great YouTube channel!

You mentioned in one of your videos that takeoff weight is often higher than max landing weight. That got me thinking...

Some years back (maybe 1999-2001?) a 74 had a tail strike on takeoff at AKL (New Zealand). I think the conclusion was that the first officer keyed in 250 tons instead of 350 tons so they rotated too early and too steep by following the computer generated numbers. Tore off panels and resulted in a small fire in the tail.

The pilots got it off the ground, did a circuit and landed. No fuel dump due to the possible fire.

With what you said about takeoff weight figure this plane must have been heavy when it landed. Wondering how landing overweight changes things for the pilots and what happens afterwards (required maintenance on the plane?)

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Edit: It was 2003 - https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20030312-0

"When the captain rotated the airplane for lift-off the tail struck the runway and scraped for some 490 metres until the airplane became airborne"