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To: libertylover
I don’t see how this crash could be blamed on Air Traffic Control.

Apparently crosswinds picked up significantly due to local storms and ATC should have advised the changes to a plane on final.

Those crosswinds showed a significant impact on the landing plane lifting the left wing enough to prevent the left gear from contacting the ground. This prevented the automatic deployment of spoilers for quite awhile

Now on to crew actions. IMO they should have manually deployed the spoilers or gone around as the landing became unstable.

The crew will eat his one with ATC's failure to update local weather as a contributing factor..

9 posted on 09/08/2026 9:34:57 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: pfflier

Three things have to happen in order for the spoilers to deploy,
1. Spoiler lever must be in the “ARMED” detent.
2. Throttles must be fully retarded.
3. The “SQUAT” switches MUST be detected on BOTH main gear Boogies.
This is to insure that the Spoilers can’t be deployed while in flight.
The nose gear touched first (Wheelbarrowing) then the right boogy, the left remained FEET in the air...Thus no spoilers..
What should have been done ? GO AROUND
How do I know?
I flew that aircraft for many years


13 posted on 09/08/2026 3:19:21 PM PDT by Robe (We just replaced)
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