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by VLM 4734 days ago
"- number 4, pilot error/bad approach, can't argue with that. the story is what's interesting"

Pilot induced oscillation on a really big scale. Coming in way too hot, slam down, whoops way over corrected, now coming in too low, whoops ran outta air and time to correct. Coming in way too hot, now are you better off trying to salvage or go around and get fired? Different nations airlines have differing policies on this...
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bajsejohannes 4734 days ago
Do you really risk getting fired for a go around? I mean, I can see that happening if you do it way more than other pilots, but just doing it once?

(For the record, I have no idea how these things works, it's just very surprising)

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RockyMcNuts 4734 days ago
I think you might get a call from a chief pilot for an anomalous approach, whether you salvage it at last minute or go around. If there's a pattern of things not going by the book, would guess you get sent for 'retraining' before you get fired... airline version of big data FTW I guess...
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justadude 4733 days ago
There may be some parallels between this and the crash which happened over London in 1999, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Cargo_Flight_8509
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