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Sorry for posting a bunch on this. This video seems to have the best analysis. A headwind made the plane appear to be going to fast. The beauty contest winner reduced the power to slow down. This caused the plane to drop. She never increased the power back or apparently did anything to stop the drop. The simulator instructor captain apparently did not take the controls and did not give her any instructions to deal with the situation that she followed. High descent rate was caused by plane being left with almost no power for no legitimate reason. The captain had been a simulator instructor for 17 years, during which he flew an average of about 10 hours a month.
1 posted on 03/28/2025 12:50:16 AM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: xxqqzz

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.


2 posted on 03/28/2025 1:42:52 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: sauropod

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3 posted on 03/28/2025 1:50:54 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: xxqqzz

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.


8 posted on 03/28/2025 9:08:28 AM PDT by Wuli
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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.


9 posted on 03/28/2025 10:49:29 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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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.


12 posted on 03/28/2025 11:19:16 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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This thread has covered everything by post 10 - except how amazing it is that no one died.


19 posted on 03/28/2025 4:50:04 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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