They scraped the flight crew from the bottom of the bucket.
The cross wind caused the right wing to drop and they never brought it back up. Instead, they allowed the right landing gear to hit so hard, a part attached to the right landing gear broke off. In a matter of seconds, the jet rolled to its right, still skidding down the runway, causing the right wing to snap off. The fuel stored that wing burst into flames as the plane came to a stop upside down.
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DEI strikes again.
This is not slanderous slur on anyone. It is about NOT picking someone for a job just to meet some artificial DEI statistics.
From the transcript:
“...I just don’t think either one of them saw it developing the way they should have and they certainly didn’t respond appropriately or quickly enough in that incident. So the big shocker and the big takeaway for me on this is this one um the captain’s low time and the captain’s non- assertiveness as a situation is developing. Yeah, were they Landing under challenging circumstances yeah they should have been briefing that and they should have been aware of that. And they should have been on edge to go around if they needed to....”
Contrary to the expert insight offered by many Freepers, Captain Steeeve says the FO screwed up but so did the Captain because it was his responsibility to keep the FO from breaking the airplane.
I failed to note that professional pilots almost exclusively will crab until short final (because crabbing is more streamlined than slipping, and easier to control) and transition to a slip at touchdown because “judgment and precise timing” is what they do.
This thread has covered everything by post 10 - except how amazing it is that no one died.