"Jay Beckman" wrote in message
news:08tsf.9585$xF6.1071@fed1read01...
... had a front row seat (actully it was an exit row window seat...) for a
compressor stall on an America West Airbus while departing Detroit enroute
home to Phoenix.

Just after liftoff we heard/felt a moderate "bang" and I glimsed some
flame out the back of the left engine just about the time the gear was in
transit. Captain came on the I/C and said it was due to wake turbulence
from the Northwest Airlines aircraft that departed ahead of us.

Flight continued to Phoenix without any further issues.

Good guess, as to the rich. No air was going through, but I'll bet that
fuel was.

I was on a flight that must have been the first landing of the first
captain's sisters kid, who had never landed anything before. It was
overcorrected all of the way down, landed long, and when he put the thrust
reversers up and gunned it, it stalled, not once, but twice.

My only experience with them, however.
--
Jim in NC