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To: Mr. Jeeves

The issue here isn’t her total hours of flying time but her hours in and familiarity with the aircraft type, especially in bad weather. One can be a competent pilot in a smaller aircraft and still have trouble handling a larger aircraft in crosswinds.


And they let her do the landing..............


26 posted on 03/20/2025 1:43:11 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......";s )
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To: Liz

The captain should have either taken over or called for a go-around. I’m sure the NTSB will hold him responsible.


27 posted on 03/20/2025 1:53:40 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Liz
I see this as more of a management issue.

The airline was probably flying the low time female pilot as much as they could to build her hours for rapid advancement to meet DEI goals.

Five days straight is no big deal on short hops but who knows how fatigued she was.

She was paired with a PIC Captain with unusual flight qualifications.

They were flying the airplane in very challenging conditions for any pilot.

This was definitely a day where you wanted the A Team flying the airplane.

On top of that, they seem to have hit a strong microburst on short final at very low altitude.

This makes for a very bad day for the pilots. The issue here was probably not so much pilot skill landing the plane as it was not realizing what was happening quickly enough and exercising poor judgment by not initiating a go around to avoid an anomalous weather event that may have created weather conditions that exceeded the operating limitations of the aircraft.

29 posted on 03/20/2025 2:08:03 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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