If done correctly, that’s a missed approach, re-fly the pattern and go again. Instead the captain slams it on the runway, breaks the plane and kills somebody. What is it about commercial aviation in other countries that creates such mediocre pilots?
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My theory is that it is because either no private aviation or it is restricted to the point that they never learn how to really fly.
As for this accident, go to https://avherald.com/h?article=4d2e6a8d&opt=0
and read it. It gives us a lot of info.
And relative to that info, my experience was (long ago retired from flying) that good landings are made or made very difficult if not impossible 3 miles outside the marker. That would be for a light twin...farther out for big iron.
At that point, the air speed must be stabilized at the correct speed for that segment, landing checklist complete, power properly set, right down to the last detail.
Too hot, too high, mad scramble to do the check list.....very bad landing and for an instrument approach, probably gets your name in the paper.
This crew met none of that criteria.
As for the downwind landing, the pilot in command has the right to demand the appropriate runway.
Pilots in the 2000’s do not know airman ship - only how to monitor the flight control computers, being mostly trained in simulators and in some foreign countries are thrown into right seat with nothing more than simulator training.